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Author:  sammurray [ Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:36 am ]
Post subject:  Fairly new to programming - suggestions
Hi,
My last experience with programming (apart from intro lessons to Java and C++ like "Hello World") was with a BBC Micro Computer in the late 1980s.

I'm increasingly in need of having expertise in such matters as statistics, programming: STATA; VBA; C++; C#; MQL; Python; Java etc etc. As a newbie, what would be the recommended starting point.

From my understanding, Steve, you started from scratch with MQL programming language. Imagine I know nothing much about programming apart from some very basic ideas.

Which would be your tutorials, courses, etc. of choice to go for?

This is my first post. I'm working currently with only one EA of Steve's and that is the MM line one Pippo. A Backtest in strategy tester seems to yield good results hands-off 24/5.5.

I've traded on an off for a number of years. I was one of the first, dare I say it, to market retail forex trading as a business opportunity many moons ago. Then the avalanche of marketeers took over and I sold the rights to my courses on to others who rebranded them.

Currently, I'm finishing a PhD on emerging markets equities and the roles of different market players and institutions. I'm always looking to partner/work with programmers/coders just to bounce ideas and get help. Glad to recognise anyone who can contribute to my data analysis and thesis who has 30 minutes - 1 hour to spare now and again.

Nice to meet y'all

Sam (UK and Hong Kong)
Author:  RedLineFred [ Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fairly new to programming - suggestions
Hi Sam,

Try this as a starter http://book.mql4.com/

Not sure what you're looking for re data analysis, but happy to help if I can.

Fred
Author:  sammurray [ Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fairly new to programming - suggestions
Hi Fred,
Thanks, sometimes I've found myself stuck in managing a huge dataset - I'm looking after about 600 variables x 2200 companies x 12 time periods at the moment. A lot of my issues have been resolved.

I actually have a piece of VBA code from another project that I'm looking for some assistance intrepreting so I can run it on one of my big datasets. Are you into VBA?

- Thanks again. This forum is incredibly generous of spirit. It is good to be a member. I was shy to post yesterday and so wrote to Steve directly.

Sam
Skype: s-a-m-u-k-1-0-0-0-k (no hyphens)
Author:  RedLineFred [ Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fairly new to programming - suggestions
Sorry mate did play with VBA about 100 years ago, but wouldn't be of any help now. But hang in there, this forum has a few stars.

One thing I have noticed though, you will get a better response from the forum if you post your question/query in detail rather than in general terms.
Author:  sammurray [ Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fairly new to programming - suggestions
Thanks for that. It is off-topic in a sense. But basically the VBA script finds the best matched pairs of companies based on a series of variables to closely match as best as possible, for example, match by size, then match by industry, then match by risk, then match by last years returns - and find the closest matching pairs within two sets of company data (eg. one set contains government controlled companies, another set contains privately controlled companies). The resultant dataset has only the paired results, all others from the sample are removed. It is a so-called "industry matched pairs" methodology with cascading selection criteria. I have the code from a previous project, and just want to know how I can apply it to a new dataset. Probably it would take someone with experience less than 30 minutes to help me out with that. Cheers. Hope that clarifies. They would receive a presitgious vote of thanks in academic journal publications into which I publish my findings later on.
Author:  SteveHopwood [ Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fairly new to programming - suggestions
Not entirely sure what you want here Sam, so sorry if my suggestions are wide of your mark.

Crapql4 is the most bog-basic coding language ever written. I hope. It is also utter crap - and deliberately so, I think. Back in the days before The Crims and The Bastard Coders of Crapql4 fell out, said Bastard Coders deliberately wrote Crapql4 to be full of holes that The Crims could exploit. Get started with it at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... f=50&t=301 A gerbil could learn this stuff, especially given the amount of Proper Expertise available here to help. These guys have even dragged my Crapql4 coding into the 21st century. Just.

There my useful advice finishes. I started programming in Basic on my BBC B in 1984 followed by Assembly language for the same machine, then graduated to COBOL, then VB 6. Today, I wrote my first program in VB.NET.

I have always done the same thingy. Find a language that will run on my machine: think, "Hmmmmm. I want to do ........"; batter away at the language until it surrendered and allowed me to do what I wanted. Today was easy - faced with a problem, I merely Googled it. VB6 was a bugger - didn't have the resource of Google at the time. :lol:

I did the same battering-away thingy with Crapql4 until the Proper Programmers here stepped in. At the least, it is good fun to do.

:D
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