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Did you use floating point or fixed point numbers?
I can't see any reason to use fixed point numbers here, seems like floating point would be perfectly sufficient.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...
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He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.
Who just wanted to push this service? OP or sevencolors? Either way, as a counterweight to all the conspiracy theory nonsense on the web, I have been making an effort to not assume I know people’s hidden intentions. I’d like to invite you to join me in that.
I was looking at the various APIs the project sources for data and was wondering does Bloomberg aggregate data sources from other vendors or does Bloomberg produce it's own market data for their terminals?
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Interestingly enough, as someone with both Bloomberg terminal and FactSet subscriptions, I still don't have real-time market data for most asset classes and securities. Those are actually add-on costs that I don't need for my research (I'm not a trader). The value for me (again not a trader) comes from having 25 years of robust fundamental and market data along with powerful portfolio analysis tools and models.
I guess I’m not very familiar with these offerings. I was really asking “how do I acquire a real time feed to plug into this open source software”. But it sounds like it’s not valuable to have that in practice?
Low latency data is mostly going to be a quality/cost/volume trade-off.
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It’s about who you know and the quality of info haha, do what you want
Well /biz/ was telling everyone to buy chainlink at 20 cents, it's now 26$, and they were posting all sorts of information to back their claims. If information giving more than x100 ROI in 3 years isn't quality enough for you then I don't know what is. One would be wise to look past the anonymity, racist jokes, homophobic jokes, etc... to find what you want, it's like diving in a lake of shit that has treasure chests…
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I can't see any reason to use fixed point numbers here, seems like floating point would be perfectly sufficient.
Floating point numbers are inadequate to manipulate accounts representing currency, and for finance at a large. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...
Of course as you say for accounting you don't want to use floating point, but I can't see anything like that in this application.
The biggest thing you pay for in the Bloomberg Terminal is the chat function, which lets you talk to other people who also have $25,000 a year to spend on a Bloomberg Terminal. But this is still pretty cool :)
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He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.
Who just wanted to push this service? OP or sevencolors? Either way, as a counterweight to all the conspiracy theory nonsense on the web, I have been making an effort to not assume I know people’s hidden intentions. I’d like to invite you to join me in that.
I’m not a coder. This looks awesome and I’d really love to try it. Can anyone tell me how to get this working or point me to a set of instructions? I see the code and read me on GitHub but don’t know what to do next. Thank you.
From a quick glance, the first thing you'll need to do is install Python for your platform. There are a bunch available, but for Windows I usually recommend WinPython. This one should be good: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_3... . Run that and select an empty folder to install it into. When it's done, open the folder and run the "WinPython Command Prompt". Once you have that, download the…
I’m not a coder. This looks awesome and I’d really love to try it. Can anyone tell me how to get this working or point me to a set of instructions? I see the code and read me on GitHub but don’t know what to do next. Thank you.
From a quick glance, the first thing you'll need to do is install Python for your platform. There are a bunch available, but for Windows I usually recommend WinPython. This one should be good: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_3... . Run that and select an empty folder to install it into. When it's done, open the folder and run the "WinPython Command Prompt". Once you have that, download the…
I get two errors;
1) no such option: -r
2) Permission denied when using Git HUB
Yes i'm a noob.