MATLAB & Simulink

Language and Programming

MATLAB for Financial Applications

Course Highlights

This three-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the MATLAB® technical computing environment for financial professionals. The course is intended for beginning users and those looking for a review. No prior programming experience or knowledge of MATLAB is assumed. Themes of data analysis, visualization, modeling, and programming are explored throughout the course, with an emphasis on practical application to finance, such as time-series analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, portfolio management, and analysis. Topics include:

Working with the MATLAB user interface
Importing data from spreadsheets and other sources
Representing financial data in MATLAB
Working with dates and times
Visualizing data and results using advanced plots and graphics
Filtering large datasets based on logical criteria
Automating tasks using code files
Algorithm development using programming constructs
Performing data analysis, modeling, and simulation
Generating reports and exporting data to file

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Who Should Attend

Existing and prospective MATLAB users involved in financial services research, data analysis, and modeling.

Course Benefits

Upon the completion of the course, the participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of MATLAB as a programming language and data analysis environment which is essential and useful for designing and building financial systems.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge of MATLAB is required. Familiarity with basic computer operations is recommended.

Course Outline

Day 1 of 3

Working with the MATLAB User Interface

Objective: Become familiar with the main features of the MATLAB integrated design environment and its user interfaces. Interactively create customized visualizations that can later be used for financial reporting.

Importing data from files
Saving and loading variables
Visualizing data interactively
Exporting and customizing graphics
Sharing graphical results

Variables and Commands

Objective: Enter MATLAB commands, with an emphasis on creating and accessing numerical and text data. Collect MATLAB commands into code files for reproduction and automation. Learn how to perform tasks such as data import, analysis and report generation.

Entering commands
Creating numerical and text variables
Finding help and documentation
Importing data programmatically
Accessing and modifying values in variables
Creating and running scripts

Visualizing Results

Objective: Create informative visualizations of numeric and time-based data. Enhance the appearance of charts by customizing graphics and annotations.

Visualizing data
Customizing graphics options
Working with individual graphics components
Annotation
Converting between numbers and text

Data Analysis

Objective: Perform mathematical and statistical calculations on numerical data. Use MATLAB syntax to perform preprocessing and analysis tasks on multiple price series with single commands.

Performing calculations on data
Interpreting matrix data
Using matrices for analysis

Day 2 of 3

Dates and Times

Objective: Use variables to represent and manipulate dates and time durations. Extract components of dates and durations as numeric variables.

Representing dates and durations
Performing calculations with dates and durations
Extracting numeric components of dates and durations
Plotting with dates

Working with Tabular Data

Objective: Import data as a MATLAB table. Work with tabular financial datasets that include mixed data types.

Storing data as a table
Extracting data from tables
Modifying tables
Table operations
Exporting data from tables

Conditional Data Selection

Objective: Analyze subsets of data that satisfy given criteria. Perform fast data extraction and manipulation using logical variables.

Defining logical conditions uins logical operators
Extracting and filtering data by indexing with a logical variables
Identifying and counting subsets of data
Managing discrete variables using categorical arrays

Programming Flow Control

Objective: Create flexible code that can interact with the user, make decisions, and adapt to different situations. Automate tasks using programming constructs.

Managing command-driven and graphical interaction with a user
Controlling program flow using conditional programming constructs
Performing iterative tasks using loops

Day 3 of 3

Working with Missing Data

Objective: Perform statistical calculations on data with missing values. Identify, remove, and replacex missing values in a data set.

Locating missing values
Ignoring, removing, and replacing missing values

Customizing Graphics

Objective: Create charts comprising multiple graphics components. Use color, text, and data manipulation techniques to produce eye-catching visualizations.

Working with MATLAB graphics hierarchy
Accessing and modifying individual graphics components
Managing graphical tables

Fitting Models to Empirical Data

Objective: Preprocess data prior to model fitting. Fit probability distributions and linear models to data. Generate random numbers from a theoritical or fitted distribution.

Fitting linear regression models
Fitting probability distributions
Simulating from distribution fits

Increasing Automation with Functions

Objective: Increase automation by encapsulating modular tasks as user-defined functions. Understand how MATLAB resolves references to files and variables. Explore MATLAB tools for debugging code.