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Summary of important user-visible changes for financial 0.5.3:
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** Due to Google retiring the option to download financial
data, the `fetch` function has been removed entirely.
Summary of important user-visible changes for financial 0.5.1:
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** The following functions are new:
candle
** A bug in the `fetch` function that broke retrieving
financial data from Google is now fixed.
** Due to Yahoo retiring the option to download financial
data, Yahoo support in the `fetch` function has now been
removed.
Summary of important user-visible changes for financial 0.5.0:
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** The following classes for Monte Carlo methods are new (see
`help @sde/simulate` for example usage):
@sde
@drift
@diffusion
** The following functions are new:
binprice
blkimpv
blkprice
blsdelta
blsgamma
blsimpv
blslambda
blsprice
blsrho
blstheta
blsvega
bm
cev
cir
gbm
heston
hwv
macd
opprofit
renko
sdeddo
sdeld
sdemrd
weeknum
** `isbusday' has been fixed to accept non-integer values.
** `holidays' has been changed to include past dates where the NYSE
was closed due to exceptional reasons.
** `holidays' has been fixed to not count New Year's holidays when it
falls on a Saturday (Saturday holidays should be shifted to the
previous Friday except when it crosses a calendar year).
** The function month now also returns a string with the 3 letter
abbreviation of the month number. The functions, year, month, day,
hour, minute, and second, all accept an optional input argument
to specify the format of an input date string.
** The period option of `fetch' no longer accepts weekly when using
Google as the backend (Google Finance no longer supports weekly
historical prices).
** The following functions had minor bug fixes unlikely to create
different results from previous versions:
rate
** The function datesplit() has been deprecated in the previous release
of the Financial package and have now been removed.
Summary of important user-visible changes for financial 0.4.0:
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** The following functions are new at financial 0.4.0:
cfconv cfdur corr2cov cov2corr
** The following functions have been imported from the time package
which has been removed (it is now simply a dummy package that
lists the financial package as its single dependency):
busdate busdays datefind datesplit
day daysact easter eomdate
fbusdate holidays hour isbusday
lbusdate lweekdate m2xdate minute
month months nweekdate second
thirdwednesday today x2mdate year
yeardays
** The following functions were made private (`fetch' should be used
directly instead):
__fetch_google__ __fetch_yahoo__
** The function `datesplit' (just imported from the time package) has
been deprecated in favour of `datevec' from Octave-core.
** The functions `rate' and `irr' should now be compatible with new
releases of octave.
** The function `fetch' should now work properly when using google
finnance to adapt to the UTF-8 file received.
** The function `dateaxis' should no longer enter in debug mode at the
end of its call.
** The package is now dependent on the io package (version 1.0.18 or
later) since the functions that it depended of from miscellaneous
package have been moved to io.
** Package is no longer automatically loaded.
Package: financial