Questions tagged [financial]

Anything related to financial calculations and processing of financial data. For example, this tag can be used for questions about interest rates calculations, stock exchange data processing, market data analysis, etc.

Anything related to financial calculations and processing of financial data. For example, this tag can be used for questions about interest rates calculations, stock exchange data processing, market data analysis, etc.

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Parse csv to dict

I am trying to parse csv financial data from the web into a dict that I can navigate through by key. I am failing using csv.DictReader. I have: import csv import urllib2 req =…
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Real world sample of Financial accounting data models

i am going to develop financial accounting software. But i am not experienced at accounting software data models. if anyone has real world samples of data models of financial accounting software, please share. thanks.
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P/Y C/Y - Calculate future value (FV) from payments (PMT) with compounding period per year (C/Y)

I am doing a TVM project and not quite understand how the compound interest translates into code. I am using BA II Plus financial calculator as a reference. Example: Find the future value of $100 payments made at the beginning of every month for 10…
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How to get definite answer instead of nan in Python?

I need help to understand the output of this code. Why am I getting Nan instead of float value? Please suggest necessary amendments require: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from scipy import stats import pandas as pd import fix_yahoo_finance as…
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Avoiding floating-point arithmetic with currency

I'm writing a simulator which uses US currency (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars). The implementation is something like this: B = B_0; While not done: B += simulate(strategy, investment); I'd like to avoid floating-point…
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best database for huge amount of data

We have a finance project which should have a rather large database. The number of tables is not more than 40, but we have about 2 tables which store financial transaction data and the estimated amount of data in these tables is going to grow at…
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Android -- Are Android applications safe from outside illegitimate intrusion?

Well I have a concern, well talking to people on IRC Channel as well as seeing discussions on various android forums, I have been inclined towards the point that some of the android devices are vulnerable to outside intrusion because of some defects…
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Executing Orders Of Same Trader Allowed?

We are building a Bitcoin Exchange. So is it allowed to execute the order of the same user, that is to execute the buy limit order of the user1 with sell limit order of the user1 if the price matches. What is approach that all financial exchanges…
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Batch script to launch batch xml files from a folder

I have a req where we have set of batch xml files in C:\Today\set folder and I need to execute these xml files using batch script and if these files execute successfuly goes to success.log file if they are failed then will go to error.log file and…
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Change a date into a Financial Year

Financial Year Date Conversion How do I change a date into a Financial Year format? i.e. 30/06/2016 into 2015/2016
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How to show negative numbers in a financial table for accessibility

I am coding these tables in HTML and am required to code for accessibility. Financial tables typically show negative numbers in parentheses. Is that considered 508/WCAG compliant? Or should negative numbers be shown as -$100.00? The title of the…
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How to calculate year over year Loan yield until the maturity. ?

My finance guy asked me to help with his broken spreadsheet and I cant figure out the logic/formula behind it.. I have Remaining Principal, Loan Rate, Maturity Date, Data create Date, Payment Frequency and I would like to calculate the total yield…
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Amazon Alexa isn't good enough. What are my other options?

I'm developing a skill on Amazon Alexa (Echo) for financial applications, but she isn't good enough at recognizing stock names. I require a maximum stock universe of about 15k stocks, and it obviously becomes very difficult for her to differentiate…
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Convert Daily Returns to Monthly Returns in Stata

I am using Stata and I have 6 years of daily returns for stocks that individuals hold in their portfolios. I would like to aggregate the daily returns to monthly portfolio returns. In some instances, the individual may hold more than one stock in…
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Python : big csv file import

I'm currently unsuccessfully trying to import a big csv dataset with Python. Basically, I've got a big csv file made of stocks quotations (one stock by column with for each stock another column which contains the dividends). I'm using the csv Module…
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