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Which language is a good choice to develop a model & analyze stock price?

2 points by choi ↗ HN
It's been a while since i actively follow about financial markets, specially stock price movement. I know its not a place to make money for ordinary folks, but i wanna give a try.

i read quite enough books and got some ideas to start build something. a friend of mine advise me to use stock analyzing softwares, at the moment i don't have any interest to buy some kind of expensive stock analyzing software.

I have a row data, not quite enough, which i'm gonna use and test the model for the moment.

any good ideas about which language i should use or should i consider to check and try software like matlab? thx

6 comments

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kranner
Mathematics?
choi
i'm talking about matlab s/w
kranner
Just a joke on the over-general use of 'what language' in the title.
ankushnarula
Matlab and SAS are both considered excellent for financial/statistical modeling. The quants at my old firm used a mix of Matlab, C++ and .NET. However it sounds like you're not integrating with external libraries or realtime data feeds so Matlab should suffice.