I recently gave a talk at the R in Finance conference in which I introduced the marketAgent package for R.
Here is the source for the package if you’d like to play with it: marketAgent_0.000.tar
I’ll be giving more details of the talk real soon now.
Update: The Portfolio Probe website now has a blog post on the conference. And here are the slides for my talk.
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