http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net Hedge Fund Software Industry Blog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:09:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Test managers often hold brief phone interviews to screen out candidates for QA/testing positions. With resume in hand, which the test manager has probably not even reviewed, before the interview commences the test manager is expected to determine within an hour or less whether the interviewed candidate would be a ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/helpful-hints-for-interviewing-experienced-qatesting-candidates/ Summary In the simplest terms, Software Testing is a process to ensure the accuracy, completeness and quality of any developed software. Rather than limiting this to a formally technical process used to investigate and measure quality of the developed computer software in terms of correctness, completeness and security, it is imperative to ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/software-testing/ Domain Analysis It is usually the first step in attempting to design a new piece of software. It involves the investigation of the area such as: banking, marketing, retailing, insurance etc., where the software is to be employed. Know The Client The holy grail of any project, satisfy your client. For that you ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/software-development-stages/ It is impractical and often impossible to find all the errors in a program. This fundamental problem in testing thus throws open the question as to what would be the strategy that you would adopt to test. Two of the most prevalent strategies include black-box testing and white-box testing. Black-Box testing * ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/software-testing-strategies/ AIOTrade http://sourceforge.net/projects/humaitrader http://blogtrader.org/ AIOTrade (formerly Humai Trader Platform) is a free, open source stock technical analysis platform built on pure java. Its pluggable architecture is also ideal for custom features extending, such as indicators and charts. It Requires JRE 1.5.0+. Auge http://sourceforge.net/projects/auge http://auge.sourceforge.net/ Auge is an easy-to-use financial portfolio management application. Auge will help you monitor and ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/stock-trading-open-source-technologies/ Did not post for a while, because was really slammed with work. But could not resist from sharing this very valuable online resource http://www2.wealth-lab.com/WL5WIKI/MainPage.ashx The Wealth-Lab Wiki hosts a Knowledge Base for Wealth-Lab Version 5 (.NET) as well as expanded documentation for Wealth-Lab Standard Indicators and TASC Indicators. Open Source Code! This Wiki also ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/open-source-indicators-components-and-their-documentation/ Blair Hull In Worth Magazine Wall Street's 25 Smartest Players By Ted C. Fishman That was 1989. Today, Hull's company is one of the world's premier market-making firms, setting the bid-ask price on stocks listed on 28 exchanges in nine countries. In some venues, the Hull Group trades nearly a quarter of ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/blair-hull-chairman-ceo-matlock-capital-bought-out-by-goldman-sachs/ In this comeback year for investors, David Tepper may have scored one of the biggest paydays of all. Mr. Tepper's hedge-fund firm has racked up about $7 billion of profit so far this year—with Mr. Tepper on track to earn more than $2.5 billion for himself, according to people familiar with ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/david-teppers-fund-made-7-billion-betting-against-us-recession/ This article will be about hedge fund accounting software providers. I will add to the article as the time goes and I get more information on this niche of hedge fund software industry. From the top of my head can name a few companies that develop accounting software for hedge funds ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/hedge-fund-accounting-software/ CARY, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Risk management remains a hot topic for all financial services firms. Introduction of more stringent requirements, especially in the investment management industry, calls for hedge funds to access more powerful analytics to effectively measure portfolio risk, typically a difficult task with significant fixed costs. To meet this ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/with-sas-concept-capital-offers-new-hosted-portfolio-analytics-and-risk-management-portal-to-the-hedge-fund-market/