Storing your favorite R functions is best done by creating your own R package. This is a quick way to get started with two example functions.Enjoy!

It was all going so well. Until my MacBook began experiencing memory issues. At around the 20 minute mark (which is close to the end), I lost some video explaining the use of the density plot auto-creation super-wizard function. The good news is that i...

The following screencast demonstrates the use of R, the quantmod R package and bash to process SPX data from 1950. An explanation on how to access a git repository that includes the plots and the R console history is also provided. This screencast prod...

Now that we've got the Python implementation under out belts, let's do the same thing with R. We'll still be able to pass command-line arguments to get a quick look at what our stock of interest is doing during the day. And we start with the familiar i...

This is a brain teaser. You've been warned.The S&P 500 is in a bear market (defined as the 50-day MA being below the 200-day MA) 30.8% of the time. Also, the S&P 500 has experienced single-day 4% declines 0.242% of the time. Of the times we exp...

My daughter's best friend lives just down the street. Her mother runs a cupcake shop that's just a little further down the street. Being eleven going on sixteen, my daughter fancies herself a "quote" -- worker at the shop. She's not paid in actual mone...

I bought a lottery ticket yesterday. I hardly ever buy them. The last time I did I lost a dollar. Actually, every time I've bought a ticket I've lost.  Yesterday I was at the local gas station in line behind a bloke who had a comprehensive folder ...

Many times you don't want to trouble friends for help with menial tasks like moving furniture. But sometimes you need to step out and ask. Your friends are always happy to help, and after the heavy lifting is done you see how easy it can be. R likes to...

It used to be stuffed animals everywhere. These days, it's those annoyingly small lego pieces. Toys in the house have a certain Tribble quality to them. They propagate during some designated time in the middle of the night and in the morning, they are ...

Most are quite unamused to find an ant infestation in their kitchen around this time of year. Time to start spraying that stuff that's not supposed to be harmful to humans but that you always wonder if it is anyway. Some bugs, such as ant attacks or so...

I have a knife rack on my kitchen wall with all my kitchen knives easily identifiable and accessible. I also have small scars on my hand where each knife can claim to have left a mark. It's not the knife's fault, of course. They hardly like being sudde...

I have a trick knee. Normally, it works just fine. But if I stand on my head when its raining on Tuesdays and Thursdays and pinch my nose, it hurts. Not just a little. It hurts a lot. I went to the doctor and he told me not to stand ...

I cut my finger on a paring knife this morning. Don't use a sharp knife to spread butter on your toast. It's better to limit yourself to using dull kitchen utensils until the caffeine kicks in. No matter, I still have most of my digits to type in a sim...

I was staring at my favorite trading algorithm the other day and I could swear it wanted to tell me something. I've made contact with it in the past, but our conversations pretty much ran along the lines of "What position are you in the market?" to whi...

Few can tell you what goes into a chicken nugget, but most will agree that it's good for your brain. If you're a little sluggish and can't focus, what do you normally do? That's right, you pop a couple chicken nuggets. And similar to our brains, our al...

Unlike many humans, markets love change. In fact, they look forward to it with great anticipation. Regular people like stability, for the most part. Unless you're a career gypsy, you like to stay in one place for some time. Making a home. Settling in, ...

editorial note: there is an error in the code explained below the code. When you flip a quarter, you normally assume the coin is fair and that there is a 50% chance of getting either heads or tails. Option pricing assumes the world of trading is f...

Whoever wrote the book on statistics, probably avoided getting a proper education in literature. At least that's my null hypothesis. The cryptic and awkward presentation of probabilities common amongst the Frequentists (no, not the Latin American Socia...

I heard a talk given by Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto where he was rambling about how he came about becoming a programming language developer. He mentioned an important milestone as being his grasp of the idea behind recursion. I've kept that in mind...

Well, sorta. More precisely, money is the sum of coin$flip divided by the number of coin$flip. But we'll get to that later. For now, let me introduce you to a new algorithm written in R. This one is another "quote" -- simple few lines of code -- whose ...