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The quantmod package

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Introduction to R for Finance Introduction to data retrieval and charting

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Time series in R More data retrieval

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Technical indicators and TTR High frequency example

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The R programming language

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R is based on the S language originally developed by John Chambers and 40 colleagues at AT&T Bell Labs in the late 1970s and 1980s R (sometimes called GNU S ) is free open source software licensed under the GNU general public license (GPL 2)
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R development was initiated by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in the early 1990s R is 80 formally known as The R Project for Statistical Computing
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R timeline
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1991 Statistical Models in S (white book) S3 methods 1984 S: An Interactive Envirnoment for Data Analysis and Graphics 1988 (Brown Book) The New S Language Written in C (Blue Book) Work on S Version 1
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Finance Task View

There are many R packages for computational nance; a description of mm 40 60 80 120 these packages can be found on the Finance Task View of100 CRAN:
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R-SIG-FINANCE
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https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/ listinfo/r-sig-finance Nerve center of the R nance community Daily must read Exclusively for Finance-specic 60 questions, not general R questions
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Packages for trading system development in R

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PerformanceAnalytics: Econometric tools for performance and risk analysis
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Performance metrics and graphs
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quantstrat: quantitative strategy model framework blotter: tools for transaction-oriented trading systems development
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Quantitative trading rules and trading accouting
quantmod: quantitative financial modelling framework TTR: technical trading rules
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Data access, charting, indicators
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Lecture references
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60 80 100 Jerey Ryans quantmod website: http://www.quantmod.com/ quantmod project page on R-forge: http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/quantmod 40 Joshua Ulrichs Foss Trading blog: http://blog.fosstrading.com/ TTR project page on R-forge: 60 http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ttr/ 120
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R-forge
R-forge is a hosting platform for R package development which mm 40 60 80 100 120 includes SVN, daily build and check, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards etc. More then 1000 R packages are hosted on R-forge including all of the 40 trading system development packages mentioned earlier It is common for new packages to be developed on R-forge and for mature packages to be maintained on R-forge even after being hosted on CRAN
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R-forge packages can be installed as follows:

R Code: Install packages from R-forge
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The quantmod package

The quantmod package for R is designed to assist the quantitative trader mm 40 60 80 100 120 in the development, testing, and deployment of statistically based trading models. Key functions: getSymbols load or download price data 40 Yahoo Finance / Google Finance FRED Oanda csv, RData 60 MySQL, SQLite chartSeries charting tool to create standard nancial charts
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The getSymbols function

The getSymbols function loads (downloads) historic price data
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R Code: The getSymbols function
> library(quantmod) > args(getSymbols) function (Symbols = NULL, env = .GlobalEnv, reload.Symbols = FALSE, 40 verbose = FALSE, warnings = TRUE, src = "yahoo", symbol.lookup = TRUE, auto.assign = TRUE, ...) NULL
Main arguments: 60 Symbols src symbols to be loaded source of the data
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The getSymbols function

R Code: Download prices from Yahoo
> getSymbols("^GSPC")
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[1] "GSPC" > ls() [1] "GSPC" > showSymbols() 40 GSPC "yahoo" > first(GSPC) GSPC.Open GSPC.High GSPC.Low GSPC.Close GSPC.Volume GSPC.Adjusted 60 2007-01-03 > last(GSPC) 2011-09-06 GSPC.Open GSPC.High GSPC.Low GSPC.Close GSPC.Volume GSPC.Adjusted 1173.97 1173.97 1140.13 1165.24 5103980000 1165.24 1418.03 1429.42 1407.86 1416.6 3429160000 1416.6
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The chartSeries function

The chartSeries function creates nancial charts
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> args(chartSeries) function (x, type = c("auto", "candlesticks", "matchsticks", "bars", "line"), subset = NULL, show.grid = TRUE, name = NULL, time.scale = NULL, log.scale = FALSE, TA = "addVo()", TAsep = ";", 40 line.type = "l", bar.type = "ohlc", theme = chartTheme("black"), layout = NA, major.ticks = "auto", minor.ticks = TRUE, yrange = NULL, plot = TRUE, up.col, dn.col, color.vol = TRUE, multi.col = FALSE, ...) NULL
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The chartSeries function

R Code: The chartSeries function
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Customize a chartSeries plot

R Code: Customize a chartSeries plot
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A chartSeries plot
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Time series data

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Almost all data related to trading is a time series: market data

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Time series data

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A time series is a sequence of observations in chronological order
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Time series methods

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start return start of time series end return end of time series frequency return frequency of time series window Extract subset of time series index return time index of time series time return time index of time series
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diff dierence of the time series lag lag of the time series aggregate aggregate to lower resolution time series 80 cbind merge 2 or more time series together
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The zoo package

The zoomm package provides an infrastructure for regularly-spaced and 40 60 80 100 irregularly-space time series Key functions: zoo merge
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create a zoo time series object merges time series (automatically handles of time alignment)
aggregate create coarser resolution time series with summary statistics rollapply calculate rolling window statistics readzoo 60read a text le into a zoo time series object Authors: Achim Zeileis
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The xts package

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Components of an xts object

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Date class
Date Dates are represented as the number of days since 1970-01-01
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R Code: Date class examples

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Date-time classes
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xts subsetting
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xts time series objects can be easily subset: Date and time organized from most signicant to least signicant
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R Code: Subset xts object
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The getSymbols.yahoo function

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R Code: The getSymbols.yahoo function
> args(getSymbols.yahoo) function (Symbols, env, return.class = "xts", index.class = "Date", 40 from = "2007-01-01", to = Sys.Date(), ...) NULL
Arguments: return.class time series class of returned object 60 index.class class of date/time index from starting date of time series to ending date of time series
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Download historic quotes: specifying the start date

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Download historic quotes: specifying the time stamp class

R Code: Get historic data and return a time-date class
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Unadjusted SBUX data

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Get stock splits and dividend history

R Code: Get stock splits and dividend history
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The adjustOHLC function

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R Code: The adjustOHLC function
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Adjust for split and dividend

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> head(SBUX) SBUX.Open SBUX.High SBUX.Low SBUX.Close SBUX.Volume SBUX.Adjusted 2000-01-03 23.87 24.69 23.25 24.66 12136400 6.01 2000-01-04 24.06 24.87 23.75 23.87 10795200 5.82 2000-01-0540 23.94 24.62 23.69 24.19 14116400 5.90 2000-01-06 24.00 25.62 24.00 25.06 15420000 6.11 2000-01-07 24.75 25.00 24.25 24.94 13035200 6.08 2000-01-10 25.87 26.75 25.81 26.00 14535600 6.34 > adj1 <- adjustOHLC(SBUX) > head(adj1)
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Compare adjustment methods

R Code: Adjust for split and dividend and compare results
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Download historic quotes: specifying adjusted OHLC

R Code: Get historic data and return adjusted OHLC
mm 40 60 80 100 > getSymbols("SBUX",index.class="POSIXct",from="2000-01-01",adjust=T)

[1] "SBUX" > head(SBUX) SBUX.Open SBUX.High SBUX.Low SBUX.Close SBUX.Volume SBUX.Adjusted 2000-01-03405.821792 6.021786 5.670577 6.014470 12440150 6.01 2000-01-04 5.868132 6.065688 5.792524 5.821792 11065383 5.82 2000-01-05 5.838865 6.004714 5.777891 5.899839 14469706 5.90 2000-01-06 5.853498 6.248610 5.853498 6.112028 15805932 6.11 2000-01-07 6.036420 6.097394 5.914472 6.082760 13361445 6.08 2000-01-10 6.309584 6.524212 6.294950 6.341290 14899398 6.34 > head(adj1) SBUX.Open SBUX.High SBUX.Low SBUX.Close SBUX.Volume SBUX.Adjusted 2000-01-03 5.821792 6.021786 5.670577 6.014470 12136400 6.01 2000-01-04 5.868132 6.065688 5.792524 5.821792 10795200 5.82 2000-01-05 5.838865 6.004714 5.777891 5.899839 14116400 5.90 2000-01-06805.853498 6.248610 5.853498 6.112028 15420000 6.11 2000-01-07 6.036420 6.097394 5.914472 6.082760 13035200 6.08 2000-01-10 6.309584 6.524212 6.294950 6.341290 14535600 6.34
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Federal reserve economic data

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Download interest rate data from FRED

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Selected technical analysis indicators in TTR

Function stoch aroon BBands chaikinAD ROC CLV CMO EMA VWMA DonchianChannel EMV
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stochastic oscillator Aroon indicator Bollinger bands Chaikin Acc/Dist rate of change Close Location Value Chande Momentum Oscillator exponential moving average volume weighted MA Donchian Channel Ease of Movement Value MA converge/diverge Relative Strength Index Trend Detection Index Vertical Horizontal Filter
Directional Movement Index Average True Range Commodity Channel Index Chaikin Volatility momentum indicator Chaikin Money Flow simple moving average double exp mov avg volume weighed avg price Detrended Price Oscillator volatility estimators Money Flow Index Parabolic Stop-and-Reverse Triple Smoothed Exponential Osc Williams Acc/Dist Zig Zag trend line
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Calculate and plot Bollinger bands

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> b <- BBands(HLC=HLC(SBUX["2011"]), n=20, sd=2) > tail(b,10) dn 2011-08-2440 33.83678 2011-08-25 33.90271 2011-08-26 34.03176 2011-08-29 34.20780 2011-08-30 34.24769 2011-08-31 34.24530 2011-09-0160 34.21113 2011-09-02 34.25267 2011-09-06 34.54411 2011-09-07 34.74668 mavg 37.24133 37.08908 36.93900 36.84324 36.81947 36.82068 36.86701 36.92300 37.04633 37.22483 up 40.64587 40.27544 39.84625 39.47869 39.39126 39.39607 39.52290 39.59333 39.54855 39.70299 pctB 0.4748383 0.4582998 0.4984514 0.7004892 0.7949691 0.8732743 0.7967595 0.6317563 0.5580152 0.8252080
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Bollinger bands
SBUX
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> macd <- MACD( Cl(SBUX), 12, 26, 9, maType="EMA" ) > last(macd,'1 week') macd signal 2011-09-06 0.01005927 -0.4979056 2011-09-0740 0.34641082 -0.3290423 > priceDPO <- DPO(Cl(SBUX)) > tail(na.omit(priceDPO)) SBUX.Close 2011-08-22 -1.900 60 -0.052 2011-08-23 2011-08-24 0.244 2011-08-25 -0.945 2011-08-26 -0.261 2011-08-29 0.154
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MACD and DPO

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R Code: Plot and calculate Bollinger bands
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High-frequency versus low-frequency time series analysis

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The strptime function

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Read GBPUSD 30-minute bars

R Code: Read GBPUSD 30-minute bars
> fn1 <- "GBPUSD.txt" > dat <- read.table(file=fn1,sep=",",header=T,as.is=T) > head(dat) 1 2 3 4 5 6 Date Time Open High Low Close Up Down 10/20/2002 2330 1.5501 1.5501 1.5481 1.5482 0 0 40 10/21/2002 0 1.5481 1.5483 1.5472 1.5472 0 0 10/21/2002 30 1.5471 1.5480 1.5470 1.5478 0 0 10/21/2002 100 1.5477 1.5481 1.5471 1.5480 0 0 10/21/2002 130 1.5480 1.5501 1.5479 1.5493 0 0 10/21/2002 200 1.5492 1.5497 1.5487 1.5492 0 0
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GBPUSD crossover example with annotation

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> > > > > > fastMA <- SMA(Cl(GBP),n=6) slowMA <- SMA(Cl(GBP),n=45) 40 co <- fastMA > slowMA x <- which(co['2007-12-24/2007-12-26'])[1] ss <- GBP['2007-12-24/2007-12-26'] chart_Series(GBP,subset='2007-12-24/2007-12-26',theme=myTheme,name="GBPUSD", TA='add_SMA(n=6,col="red",lwd=2);add_SMA(n=45,col="blue",lwd=2)') > add_TA(ss[x,"Low"]-0.0005,pch=17,type="p",col="red", on=1,cex=2) 60 > text(x=x,y=ss[x,"Low"]-0.0005,"Crossover\nbar",pos=1)
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Introduction to R for Finance Introduction to data retrieval and charting

Time series in R More data retrieval

Technical indicators and TTR High frequency example

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Introduction to R for Finance Introduction to data retrieval and charting

Time series in R More data retrieval

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The R programming language

1993 R on Statlib 1997 R on CRAN GNU Project

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Exponential growth of R Users and R packages

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Finance Task View

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Packages for trading system development in R

Performance metrics and graphs

quantmod: quantitative financial modelling framework TTR: technical trading rules

Data access, charting, indicators

xts: extensible time series

zoo: ordered observations

Time series objects

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The quantmod package

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The getSymbols function

Main arguments: 60 Symbols src symbols to be loaded source of the data

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The getSymbols function

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The chartSeries function

The chartSeries function

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"minor.tick" "up.up.col" "dn.up.border" "sub.col"

[1] "chob" attr(,"package") [1] "quantmod"

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Time series data

Almost all data related to trading is a time series: market data

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Time series data

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Time series object

class 60 ts mts timeSeries zoo 80 xts

package base base rmetrics zoo xts

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