Computational Finance

Analyzing and Modeling Financial Data
Rapidly Deploying Financial Applications
Why Use MATLAB
Introduction to MATLAB in Finance

Rapidly Deploying Financial Applications

Financial markets move fast. Models and applications for valuing new instruments must be prototyped, modeled, checked for accuracy, and delivered to end users, sometimes in a matter of hours.

Deployment flexibility is a key advantage to using MATLAB as your development environment. In many financial groups, researchers lose valuable time waiting for their applications to be converted into a format that can be freely deployed to traders, analysts, and portfolio managers. Deployment itself can take from two weeks to six months, while implementing improvements is both time-consuming and prone to error. The MathWorks offers a variety of tools to deploy financial applications developed in MATLAB without recoding. Using the deployment tools, you can deploy your MATLAB algorithms to users without MATLAB, royalty-free.

See details on building and deploying MATLAB applications.

Create Stand-Alone Executables

MATLAB Compiler lets you create stand-alone executables. You then distribute your executable with the MATLAB Component Runtime (MCR), so that the executable can run on machines without MATLAB.

Use MATLAB from Microsoft Excel

Spreadsheet Link™ EX lets you develop algorithms in MATLAB and access them within a Microsoft Excel program using Spreadsheet Link™ EX and MATLAB.

Create MATLAB based add-ins for Microsoft Excel

Builder for Excel lets you deploy your MATLAB algorithms as Excel add-ins.

Deploy to the Desktop or Web

MATLAB® Builder™ NE supports Microsoft-based solutions.
MATLAB Builder JA supports Java-based solutions.

You can build your MATLAB algorithms into components to integrate into larger software applications, in Java or any .NET language.

Create customized reports

MATLAB Report Generator lets you easily create standard and customized reports from your MATLAB models and data in multiple output formats, including HTML, RTF, XML, and SGML.