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What is "Commodity Software"?

What is "Commodity Software"? (Part of the title in the article at http://valgrind.org/docs/newsome2005.pdf) (I'm not an english speaker, and the direct translation of "commodity" to my language does not make much sense to me in a…
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How can we get commodity prices in R?

As the title, I know we can use quantmod package to get stock prices, but how can we retrieve commodity prices like Gold, Oil or Aggs?
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How to get Soybean commodity price into Google Sheet: Simple solution

I went here: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/soybeans I inspect element of the soybean price, visible on the right side. Then I find the number in the dev tools panel, right click and copy Xpath, or copy full xpath. Then I passed the xpath…
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Quandl - Converting JSON data into data frame uisng R

I am trying to pull data from quandl website. I am using jsonlite library of R to pull the data. It's working fine. But, when I converting it to dataframe, it's throwing me following error Error in (function (..., row.names = NULL, check.rows =…
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Trick to getting commodities price history in Quantmod R?

require("quantmod") This works: #Symbol for Natural Gas in front month with Yahoo Finance getQuote("NGH16.NYM", src="yahoo") but this doesn't" getSymbols("NGH16.NYM", src="yahoo", from="2015-09-01") Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL,…
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Service and/or Commodity

Do we create services when we write programs, or are they commodities? Are we like window-washers in that our programs(actions) provide some services to the users? OR: are we like carpenters in that our programs(products) are sold and used by their…
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jQuery function to find which button in table row is clicked

I been trying to find a solution for this for a long time and would really appreciate any help. I have a table which is generated through a php sql query beside each row is two buttons Buy & Sell when the user clicks on either of the buttons it…
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How to get India's MCX Gold Prices in r?

I am new to quandl & finance/trading data libs and trying to get Gold Prices from MCX which is Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited but not sure how can it be done. Also came across this SO post: How can we get commodity prices in R? & tried…
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Commodity Futures Cascading in Python

I am new to Quantitative Finance in Python so please bear with me. I have the following data set: > head(df, 20) # A tibble: 20 × 15 deal_id book counterparty commodity_name commodity_code executed_date first_delivery_date…
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Compare MAPE for markets with different volatilities

I am trying to compare the forecast accuracy of a number of methods using MAPE across different commodity markets, such as corn, wheat, soybeans, coffee, cotton. Obviously the relative MAPE’s area impacted by the relative volatilities of each…
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Commodity Term Structure Data from Bloomberg

I am looking for a way to download daily WTI crude oil (CL) term structure data from Bloomberg in the Excel Add-in. My goal is to create a table that looks like this: For each futures contract, I want the lat price and the days to…
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Error in "Quandl" while pulling data for commodity in R

I am trying to pull data for commodity Soybean Meal, Central Illinois using code WSJ/SOYB_MEAL in the following R function . I am using package Quandl library(Quandl) mydata = Quandl("WSJ/SOYB_MEAL") head(mydata) It's giving me following…
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MATLAB Yahoo data feed error

I'm trying to use Yahoo API in MATLAB R2015a to retrieve historical data (prices) for commodities. I can get the price for current date, but not for a historical date range. So for example Last price for CK15.CBT Corn May 15: clear clc c = yahoo; a…
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How to change the price of all the products with a constant variable according the weight of the products in wordpress?

I want to change the price of the products according to the weight with a variable amount. Such as silver, as the price changes on day to day basis so the price will be calculated with the amount I insert for 1gm silver. For example, a product is of…
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