Category: General
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My wishes for 2012
Good evening everyone, As we are converging towards the end of 2011, I would like to come back on the major events of this year and share with you my views on the upcoming one. Finance Let’s first start by a global overview of the financial world. As a matter of fact, 2011’s second semester…
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Asynchronous Financial Data processing using F#
Hi everyone, I was looking at a book to find some algorithm to detect clusters within financial data. I managed to find a decent algorithm for that matter, but I then wanted to test it on some real data. Hence, I had to get the data from somewhere and I chose to use Yahoo! Finance.…
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Quantitative Finance and Computer Science: quick comparison between R and MATLAB
Hi everybody, It’s a few weeks without a post and I apologize for that; I am at the moment looking for a job in Geneva, and it’s a bit time consuming as you would imagine. Anyway, I kept working a bit on different projects and I had the idea to create this post. What encouraged…
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Olivier Smaga in politics
Hi everybody, Just a quick post to support my brother Olivier Smaga who is starting up his political career in Geneva, Switzerland. I sincerely wish him all the best and I am sure he will be very successful. For more information, you can look at his blog http://www.oliviersmaga.ch. See ya!
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Martingale Strategy simulation on Roulette
Good afternoon everybody, I know that most people who have a slight background in probability theory try to apply it to casinos games. I even reckon that most teachers now choose this approach to interest their students to the field. However, I have the chance to know people working in casinos, and I know too…