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Clojure for Finance

By Timothy Washington
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  1. Orientation – Addressing the Questions Clojure Answers
    • Orientation – Addressing the Questions Clojure Answers
    • Notions of computation
    • Notions of finance
    • Concrete types of computation
    • Tooling
    • A first look at Clojure's core functions
    • Summary
    • First Principles and a Useful Way to Think
    • Modeling stock price activity
    • Function evaluation
    • First-class functions
    • Lazy evaluation
    • Basic Clojure functions and immutability
    • Namespaces and creating our first function
    • Basic data structures
    • Summary
    • Developing the Simple Moving Average
    • Perception and representation
    • Knowing the data input
    • Knowing the data output
    • Reasoning about the equation needed to achieve our output
    • Understanding Vars and bindings
    • Working with lazy sequences
    • Implementing our equation
    • Destructuring
    • Summary
    • Strategies for Calculating and Manipulating Data
    • Our first refactor – the price list
    • The exponential moving average
    • The Bollinger Bands
    • Summary
    • Traversing Data, Branching, and Conditional Dispatch
    • Our second refactor – the generate prices function
    • Polynomial expressions
    • A sine wave
    • Stitching the pieces together
    • Surveying the function landscape
    • First order functions
    • Applying functions
    • Summary
    • Surveying the Landscape
    • Scalar data types
    • Numbers and precision
    • A review of collections
    • Data transformation patterns and principles
    • Clojure's model of state and identity
    • Introducing side effects
    • Concurrency and parallelism
    • Type systems
    • Comparing Clojure with object orientation
    • Comparing Clojure with FP and strong typing
    • Summary
    • Dealing with Side Effects
    • Simple writing
    • Extensible Data Notation
    • Devising a persistence strategy
    • Consuming from a data stream
    • Using a componentized architecture
    • Summary
    • Strategies for Using Macros
    • Simple reading
    • Functions for querying a system
    • Separate OR AND lookups
    • Deriving a query language using macros
    • Summary
    • Building Algorithms – Strategies to Manipulate and Compose Functions
    • Structuring our data for further analysis
    • A third refactor of the analytic functions
    • Signals using moving averages
    • The Relative Strength Index
    • Bollinger Band signals
    • Summary
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