How do I connect Java with MS Excel? Try Webservices with SOAP!
It is possible to connect Java and MS Excel using various technologies. Some of theses technologies include COM and DCOM wrappers like Groovy Scriptom, or J-Interop. Or other direct addin solutions...
View ArticleHow can I visualize my model data in an interactive webpage?
A brilliant website is the perfect example for user friendly interactive data visualization: Gapminder. This website presents statistical data about the countries of the world and how it changes in...
View ArticleHow can I speed-up my MS Excel sheet?
There are many reasons, why your Excel sheet is slow and there are many things what you can do about a slow Excel sheet. Your sheet is slow because you use a large data set, you use slow built-in...
View ArticleTheta Proxy promises speed-up of MS Excel UDFs — How fast is it?
Theta Proxy XL is a new product from my company Thetaris. It promises speed-ups of several orders of magnitude. Here, I present some benchmark results. These will help you to decide when to apply Theta...
View ArticleHow can I implement Monte-Carlo Simulations in MS Excel?
Monte-Carlo simulation is a very import tool for assessing all kinds of risks and chances. It it widely used in project management, option pricing and business valuation. Often, the input data and the...
View ArticleComprehensive List of Free Historical Market Data Sources
Often people ask me where they can find historical data of stock prices, commodities, interest-rates, bonds, fx rates … . In previous posts, we already looked at live data feeds for Matlab, and Excel....
View ArticleSell in May and Go Away But Remember to Come Back in September. Really?
Sell in May and go away is an old wisdom which is interesting to analyze. And the continuation “Remember to come back in September” completes this wisdom to a real trading strategy. This strategy is...
View ArticleThe Easiest Back-Testing of Trading Strategies: MS Excel Pivot Table!
Before using specialized tools for back-testing I propose that one tries the MS Excel Pivot Table first. The pivot table tool is great for inspection, filtering and analyzing large data sets. In this...
View ArticleIs there an esay way to get public web data into Excel ?
There are many free data sources: In a previous post, I published a list a free market data sources. Now, I would like to point you to an interesting project: WIKIPOSIT. This project aggregates many...
View ArticleHow can I get data from a website in my Excel/Matlab/R etc? Try Magic!
Since I am always looking for new handy tools, I found a cool way scraping data from websites: “Magic” from import.io Ltd. Import.io website One-click data extraction This service provides a simple...
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