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Ask HN: Financial modeling quants at this site?

3 points by serverdude ↗ HN
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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lzw
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...
serverdude
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:))

adrianscott
yahoo finance has a bunch of downloadable stuff. a lot of folks use that to get started...
serverdude
Thanx - yeah - i already looked at the usual suspects including yahoo and google finance.
serverdude
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:)
dkersten
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 :)
serverdude
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
dkersten
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.
secretasiandan
I am and have spoken with a few others from here that are as well. You should put your contact info in your profile
serverdude
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!