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USING WOLFRAM|ALPHA FOR MARKETS

19 May 2009 by Cullen Roche 0 Comments

There’s a cool new tool on the web called WolframAlpha that’s basically an analytical search engine. This tool looks like it could be particularly useful for those of us who are trying to constantly analyze risk/reward across various asset classes.

Wolfram Alpha provides details that a lot of other financial sites simply don’t cover.   WA’s display is not only pleasing, but detailed.  You can get everything from simple charts and returns to correlation matrices, return histograms, projected returns, and various risk metrics vs the S&P 500.  And it allows you to transfer all data into a PDF format.  Have a look here:

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WA is very new and doesn’t have every stock ticker yet, but it looks like it could prove to be a promising tool down the line….
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