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Ask HN: Financial modeling quants at this site?

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My first post here - so apologies if I break any protocols inadvertently.

Are there any financial modeling quantitative types over here? I am working on an idea (at a very early stage - hence nothing substantial to post) and was wondering if folks who model investment decisions based on analysis of historical data visit this forum. I am a novice in this area as well :)

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I know a few people on HN who are interested, but probably not thaaat much ahead of you. For example, I find the idea quite itneresting myself and have considered getting more intimate with quantative trading software, but have yet to get around to actually doing anything. I do love complex event processing (CEP) distributed computing type projects though. They intrigue me :)

Please feel free to send me a message (just put my linked in my contact details). Ideally speaking I am looking for someone who has direct experience in financial modeling

Well, I'm far from your ideal contact, since I have no experience besides an interest in such systems from a technical point of view.

I am and have spoken with a few others from here that are as well. You should put your contact info in your profile

Hey - I don't see much info about you either on your profile:)

Anyways, I put my linked in info - feel free to contact me. IF you do not mind giving me contact info of folks at HN who are interested, please do so. Thanx!

I've applied economics to historical and current data to discover where markets were mispricing assets. But for myself, as a hobby. Not sure what you're looking for but might be able to point you to a source of info...

i am looking for historical data "easily" digestible by software. As far as I know it is not there (not for free for sure).

I am trying to evaluate an idea based on financial modeling but I am not ready yet to share it (not out of secrecy but out of doing some basic research first:))

yahoo finance has a bunch of downloadable stuff. a lot of folks use that to get started...

Thanx - yeah - i already looked at the usual suspects including yahoo and google finance.

Hi Adrian Just glanced through your profile and was wondering if it is kosher to contact you with a gist of my idea. I think you are overwhelmingly qualified to give some sane advice to me:)

Sure, feel free to drop me a line!

Done - thanx!

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