I spent some time yesterday rebuilding the downloadable templates in my Building an AI financial market model - Lesson V post to be RapidMiner 4.0 compatible. You can now download both the classification and prediction experiement, gold model file (mod), and Excel files in two easy Zip file downloads. Everything should work [...]
A few years ago I got fascinated with Monte Carlo simulations after this application appeared in my 401k plan. At the time they had this “what if” calculator where you enter your age and then the amount you plan to save yearly in the 401k. You’d have to select how you wanted to invest [...]
It’s no secret that I use TraderXL Pro to download the majority of my Stock, Future, and Forex data that I use for RapidMiner modeling. I use the BulkquotesXL module because it’s able to download daily and weekly data from Yahoo and daily price data from the PiFin data source. Usually it downloads the data [...]
For those of you who don’t like using YALE, now called RapidMiner, I offer you neural nets in Excel. A few years ago I came across a slow, but really cool neural net application written in Excel by a PhD student, Angshuman Saha. I’ve used this little spreadsheet to make quicky models and [...]
