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Just curious, if you live in Princeton, or did you go to Princeton University?

Can anyone recommend any good books or websites for "Python for Financial Modeling"? Amazon has one book on this topic, but the reviews were not very good. Thanks.

Sankar, What's you email address? I want to ask you some things? Maybe we can meet for lunch in Grand Central next week. Please use my email SatnamSingh@hotmail.com. Satnam

If you have an account with IB, you can see it in their workstation.

Depends on what frequency and time period you need. You can definitely get past one year price data from Bloomberg or Reuters but it will not be tick level data. It will be more like 10min, 30min, 1hr, daily frequency. If you have a paper or trading account with IB you can even get historical...

This is a nice feature. One of the things you can do is to assign a number to each application and then in the status display show the assigned number instead of the name/username. This way you can maintain the privacy issue and still display all the applications.

Labor force excludes unemployed people who give up looking for jobs. Then there are adjustments for death and birth model. Without these adjustments the unemployment rate should be higher.

Very interesting article. I wonder what people think about the following line from the article: "Any finite set of rules is going to be a very incomplete approximation of reality."

Interesting article in Wednesday's WSJ about numbers. When Really Big Numbers Aren't Nearly Enough The nine-digit Social Security Number is holding strong after 73 years. The 10-digit phone number is six decades old and counting. But the Internet will soon outlive its equivalent numbering...

Congrats guys. It's impressive that our program was so well represented.

I attended first half and basically the first half was just an overview of the product/company. One good thing was that they have student version of MATLAB which you can purchase while you are a student, but the rep suggested that the updated version R200b is coming out in a week or so. So if...

Congrats guys.

This weekend's NY Times magazine article "The No-Stats All Start" was very interesting. It talks about an NBA player who's stats are average but whenever he is on court his team gets lot better. The use of statistics described is very interesting. I think some of you might like the article. The...

Happy belated birthday Radha.

Happy birthday dude.