Financial Time Series Toolbox

Preface


About This Book

This book describes the Financial Time Series Toolbox for MATLAB®, a collection of tools for the analysis of time series data in the financial markets. Financial engineers working with time series data, such as equity prices or daily interest fluctuations, can use this toolbox for more intuitive data management than is available using regular vectors or matrices.

Organization of the Document

Chapter
Description
Chapter 1: Overview
Describes how to create financial time series objects.
Chapter 2: Using Financial Time Series
Discusses how to manipulate and analyze financial time series data.
Chapter 3: Technical Analysis
Discusses and provides examples for the technical analysis functions included in the toolbox.
Chapter 4: Graphical User Interface
Describes the financial time series graphical user interface, which allows you to manipulate and analyze financial time series data without resort to the MATLAB command line.
Chapter 5: Function Reference
Describes the functions used to create and manipulate financial time series objects. Also describes functions that use financial time series data in various financial indicators.


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