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Just a small info relevant to this thread - we have performed an out of sample analysis of skewness effect in commodities (built on a research...
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What you have proposed is a very simple strategy. On your place, I would download all data to Excel (prices + dates of events) and then do an...
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That's a very clever question indeed ... Hard to answer, but a few months ago, I have read one interesting research paper which deals with that...
Howard: I would recommend R. It has all the functionalities of Matlab and much better price ($0 :) ). You may also try to use Amibroker if you...
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