general information & historie stock quotes

[Peter Schmitteckert-2]

Dear QuantLib'ler,

I'm highly skilled in math and software development,
but I have nearly zero knowledge on the models
used in financial analysis.

Could someome point out some compact introduction
to the concepts and models?

In addition I would like to to some investigation of stock
quotes to get more customed to the analysis.
Does somebody know, if one can download the
stock quotes (or even better the quotes for options)
as number, so that one can perform some statistal analysis.

Thanks in advance.
Peter

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[Arcady Novosyolov]

Peter:

Peter Schmitteckert wrote:
>
> Dear QuantLib'ler,
>
> I'm highly skilled in math and software development,
> but I have nearly zero knowledge on the models
> used in financial analysis.
>
> Could someome point out some compact introduction
> to the concepts and models?

Try
http://www.contingencyanalysis.com/
http://www.gloriamundi.org/
http://www.fenews.com/
http://www.garp.com/
http://www.riskmetrics.com/

> In addition I would like to to some investigation of stock
> quotes to get more customed to the analysis.
> Does somebody know, if one can download the
> stock quotes (or even better the quotes for options)
> as number, so that one can perform some statistal analysis.

Stock quotes may be found at
http://chart.yahoo.com/d

I'm not sure where to find option quotes, you might try
http://www.cbot.com/
to start with.

Arcady

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[Peter Schmitteckert-2]

Salut,

[..]
>Try
>http://www.contingencyanalysis.com/
>http://www.gloriamundi.org/
>http://www.fenews.com/
>http://www.garp.com/
>http://www.riskmetrics.com/
Seems like a lot  christmas-holiday work :).
 
>Stock quotes may be found at
>http://chart.yahoo.com/d
Thanks, that works fine.

Best wishes
Peter

[Ferdinando Ametrano-6]

>Could someome point out some compact introduction
>to the concepts and models?
I would consider a book too.
The good old J. Hull "Options, Futures and other derivatives" (currently
4th edition) is probably overall the best introduction.

ciao -- Nando