Posted by
Mark Knecht on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/QuantLibAddin-initial-questions-tp14656p14736.html
Hi Eric,
I've gone round and round about how to respond but at a minimum I
want to say thanks for your last response.
I've written 3 complete long responses and in the end have deleted
then all. I think the problem is one where someone like me - just a
basic retail trader - is trying to learn how to use this tool in a
forum filled with Quant professionals who designed it. I suspect it's
going to be up to me to just work to find the answers I guess. Most
likely a painful set of tasks.
The links below, while useful, aren't the sort of places that teach
how to use any of this stuff as best I can tell. The best reference
I've found so far seems to be to dig through the code in the
quantlib-test-suite program but that's painful & slow. None the less
at least all the parts seem to be there and functioning.
I am now wondering if there are any sort of 'first year' books on
quant finance that specifically use QuantLib and would be appropriate
for someone like me - BSEE, lots of engineering experience, not too
much programming experience. I found Mark Joshi's books on Amazon but
the reviews don't make me confident that they are what I'm looking
for.
Anyway, thanks very much again.
Thanks,
Mark
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Eric Ehlers <
[hidden email]> wrote:
<SNIP>
> No question that the documentation is thin but I hope that it is possible
> for a non-programmer to get up to speed on the usage of QuantLibXL without
> referring to source code.
>
>> =qlBlackConstantVol(,B1,"target",B2)
>
>
> Please try replacing that call with
>
> =qlBlackConstantVol("my_vol", B1, "target", B2)
>
> In other words, for the first parameter, in place of a null string, pass in
> your own string that you would like to use as the object name. This might
> make the behavior clearer to start. Later on you can go back to using
> anonymous objects if you prefer.
>
OK, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
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