Category: Finance
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Agile
Agile as per english dictionary means able to move quickly and easily. Agile inshort means iterative / incremental development methodology. It promotes Adaptive planning Evolutionary development and delivery A time-boxed iterative approach Encourages rapid and flexible response to change In simple terms I called it test based development where requiierement evolves…
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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools
Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of application software. It comprises of requirements management software architecture computer programming software testing software maintenance change management project management release management Some of the popular tools I have used which will discuss in this article Team…
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Perl is still alive
After going through number of online Perl conference videos, its evident that language still got lot to offer than what people explored so far. Joining the bandwagon back!!!
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Find files on solaris
Find all the files under /u* which are 30 days old and greater than 1gb find /u* -type f -mtime +30 -size +1024000 | xargs ls -ltr | awk -F” ” ‘{print $5 ” ” $9}’ | sort -r -n | awk -F” ” ‘{print $2}’ | xargs du -h…
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The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
It is a series of messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages. Example of FIX message (Tag Value pair) 8=FIX.4.1^9=0235^35=D^34=10^43=N^49=VENDOR^50=CUSTOME^56=BROKER^52=19980930-09:25:28^1=XQCCFUND^11=10^21=1^55=EK^48=277461109^22=1^54=1^38=10000^40=2^44=76.750000^59=0^10=165 Fix message divided into 3 main category Header Fix version sender receiver type of message Body order type symbol qty price Footer checksum – used to avoid the transmission error Let…
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Fixed Income
It provides a return in the form of fixed periodic payments and the eventual return of principal at maturity. Unlike a variable-income security, where payments change based on some underlying measure such as short-term interest rates, the payments of a fixed-income security are known in advance. Example of a fixed-income…
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Exchange Traded Fund – ETF what is it, how it works, who likes it
A security that tracks an index, a commodity or a basket of assets like an index fund, but trades like a stock on an exchange. ETFs experience price changes throughout the day as they are bought and sold.
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Treasury Business
Overview The U.S. Treasury periodically needs to borrow money to finance the operation of the government. When the Treasury needs to borrow money it issues instruments called bills, notes or bonds, each of which are basically nothing more than an “I owe you.” All Treasury instruments also have defined maturity…