SAS offers an effective Markets in Financial Instruments Directive MiFID business intelligence solution which can underpin the drive for competitive advantage. A planned, incremental approach - leveraging investments in existing systems - is both possible as well as a best way forward. The opportunity is to use proven technology to...
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive MiFID was enacted by the European Parliament on 21 April, 2004 and was set to become law in the 27 member states by April 2007 but is now scheduled for implementation by November 2007. This paper provides essential guidance for analysts and designers working...
ProTrader client for Pocket PC supports the majority of functionality of trading terminals for regular PC. It allows working with positions and orders, powerful charting and technical analysis, online quotes and news, alerts, chat with dealer and contains many other tools, agreeable to the standards of modern conception of trading...
If you you are looking for a powerful yet simple financial calculator with wide range of financial instruments, look no further. Loan calculator, mortgage calculator, bond calculator, futures, options and more - WSFA does it all! The program has a unique approach to the matter of financial, business, and...
Unique Financial Trading Platform for Technical Analysis. Features powerful charting, creation of indicators on C# or Visual Basic languages. Waste of built-in analysis techniques. Any financial instrument: stock, future, option. Portfolio-level backtesting. Interactive Brokers, DTN.IQ, Barchart, Yahoo and ASCII data providers. NeedForTrade Studio Lite version differs from full version only...
My friends at Stratus brought my attention to a recent survey done by Laura Didido of Information Technology Intelligence Corporation ITIC that reminds me a great deal of surveys executed by my former employer, International Data Corporation IDC. Early in the adoption cycle of client/server computing, IDC...
Unique Financial Trading Platform for Technical Analysis. Features powerful charting, creation of indicators on C# or Visual Basic languages. Waste of built-in analysis techniques. Any financial instrument: stock, future, option. Portfolio-level backtesting. Interactive Brokers, DTN.IQ, Barchart, Yahoo and ASCII data providers.Version 3.6 adds data export to text files and features...
Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernelA mixed barrel of fish.There are so many threads in this mess that one can look at almost anything. But some things come out loud and clear:1. We are in a post-Bilski situation......software patents (which seem to be at...
CapeTools QuantTools Developer (c++, java, .NET, ActiveX) is a financial instrument modelling toolkit for the Windows platform;. The libraries contain more than 2100 functions for managing, pricing and risk management of fixed income derivatives, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, credit derivatives, equity derivatives and commodity derivatives. FpML files can...
Datasynapse recently released the results of a survey that indicated that IT executives were more concerned about high performance computing than virtualization (I guess that meant using virtual machine software to create a virtual server-based environment rather than a more comprehensive use of the term). I must have not been...
Here's a bit from a May 20/08 Financial Times report under the title Moody's error gave top ratings to debt products: Moody's awarded incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product due to a bug in its...
IAC: If at first you don't succeed, spin off the weak stuffMissing wordsQuoting:"At least LendingTree will be a good short–mortgages and financial services spells OUCH."I suspect you were making a reference to the recent sub-prime loan difficulties.Surprising to me that these subprime loans, which are more expensive because more risky,...
With financial support from NASA, Iowa State University ISU engineers have developed a sensor to quickly find leaks in a spacecraft. This sensor locates an air leak by listening to the noise generated by the air rushing out of the leak and includes an array of 64 elements that detects...
Do we really need classes on Vista?Well...Perhaps the majority don't need much help or for that matter classes in Vista, but there sure is a minority who just don't and never have had computers, let alone computers with Vista. So, it makes sense if you're teaching in a school where...
Although both sample companies discussed so far, IEED and SAB, are start-ups there's a critically important difference between what we know of their IT requirements. That difference amounts to this: with IEED we know what we have to do, but don't know how to do it; while, with SAB, we...
Published just this morning, a new Google patent application illustrates a phone interface that would use a standard desktop-type phone that would display a series of Google-supplied advertisements downloadable from the Internet.This would not be a separate Google Phone instrument, but as the Patent name indicates, an Internet Protocol...
With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It also should be able to determine if traces of lifes molecular building blocks have been produced by anything alive. The device has already been tested in the Atacama...
The Portfolio Optimization template calculates the optimal capital weightings for a basket of investments that gives the highest return for the least risk. The unique design of the model enables it to be applied to either financial instrument or business portfolios. The ability to apply optimization analysis to a portfolio...
About 5 hours after signing up for Google Checkout, I noticed a message from Mastercard on the machine stating my card was blocked because of suspicious activity. How could that be? I'm in Canada and there is no way I could have purchased anything using my account even...
Live Bank is a power advisory-informational instrument that helps you to get real support from our professionals in any field of business (accountant, lawyer, broker, banker, financial analyst, economist) in any part of the world in real time operation mode, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Use Live...
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