In the double session of Applied Financial Engineering today, after Antonio explained basic usage and some necessary commands of Matlab, of course with all the explanation of the Math behind the commands and how it works, we jumped right into programming - with both Matlab and VBA.
Its been more than a year since I wrote any code, so was good to return back to the programming days. And even while I was trying to relish those moments, in came another amazing task of the day. Antonio took us to the Bloomberg website, showed us some Bonds, their Coupons and Current Prices, and then using these we directly went to a real life situation - to use these numbers and find out discount factors and rate of returns of 3 bonds we considered for calculations - all using Matlab program.
Trust me, it can't get any more exciting than this for a guy like me coming from a Investment Banking IT background. These first two classes just made the day for me :-)
And right after this was a class of Applied Corporate Finance, where-in Conchita had invited a representative of Factset, another market data feed portal, and the guy explained us all the details of using factset to benefit of our corporate finance and in general stock analysis, trading, etc needs. It's amazing in the sense of how much details can we get just by access to this portal.
And then Conchita explained us how we are to use this portal, find appropriate data, and use it to create our group presentation as part of the deliverable for this subject.
So, today's message was clear - I have got to start monitoring and exploring the tickers and market data feeds from now on !!
Its been more than a year since I wrote any code, so was good to return back to the programming days. And even while I was trying to relish those moments, in came another amazing task of the day. Antonio took us to the Bloomberg website, showed us some Bonds, their Coupons and Current Prices, and then using these we directly went to a real life situation - to use these numbers and find out discount factors and rate of returns of 3 bonds we considered for calculations - all using Matlab program.
Trust me, it can't get any more exciting than this for a guy like me coming from a Investment Banking IT background. These first two classes just made the day for me :-)
And right after this was a class of Applied Corporate Finance, where-in Conchita had invited a representative of Factset, another market data feed portal, and the guy explained us all the details of using factset to benefit of our corporate finance and in general stock analysis, trading, etc needs. It's amazing in the sense of how much details can we get just by access to this portal.
And then Conchita explained us how we are to use this portal, find appropriate data, and use it to create our group presentation as part of the deliverable for this subject.
So, today's message was clear - I have got to start monitoring and exploring the tickers and market data feeds from now on !!
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