Preface (Datafeed Toolbox)

Datafeed Toolbox

R12 Related Products

The MathWorks provides several products that are especially relevant to the kinds of tasks you can perform with the Datafeed Toolbox.

For more information about any of these products, see either:

The online documentation for that product, if it is installed or if you are reading the documentation from the CD
The MathWorks Web site, at http://www.mathworks.com; see the "products" section

Note The toolboxes listed below all include functions that extend MATLAB's capabilities.

Table 0-1:
Product
Description

Database Toolbox
Tool for connecting to, and interacting with, most ODBC/JDBC databases from within MATLAB

Excel Link
Tool that integrates MATLAB capabilities with Microsoft Excel for Windows

Financial Derivatives Toolbox

Tool that extends the Financial Toolbox in the areas of fixed income derivatives and of securities contingent to interest rates, with functions for analyzing individual financial derivative instruments and portfolios composed of them

Financial Time Series Toolbox
Tool for analyzing time series data in the financial markets

Financial Toolbox
MATLAB functions for quantitative financial modeling and analytic prototyping

GARCH Toolbox
MATLAB functions for univariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) volatility modeling

Optimization Toolbox
Tool for general and large-scale optimization of nonlinear problems, as well as for linear programming, quadratic programming, nonlinear least squares, and solving nonlinear equations

Statistics Toolbox
Tool for analyzing historical data, modeling systems, developing statistical algorithms, and learning and teaching statistics

**Table 0-1:**
Product	Description
Database Toolbox	Tool for connecting to, and interacting with, most ODBC/JDBC databases from within MATLAB
Excel Link	Tool that integrates MATLAB capabilities with Microsoft Excel for Windows
Financial Derivatives Toolbox	Tool that extends the Financial Toolbox in the areas of fixed income derivatives and of securities contingent to interest rates, with functions for analyzing individual financial derivative instruments and portfolios composed of them
Financial Time Series Toolbox	Tool for analyzing time series data in the financial markets
Financial Toolbox	MATLAB functions for quantitative financial modeling and analytic prototyping
GARCH Toolbox	MATLAB functions for univariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) volatility modeling
Optimization Toolbox	Tool for general and large-scale optimization of nonlinear problems, as well as for linear programming, quadratic programming, nonlinear least squares, and solving nonlinear equations
Statistics Toolbox	Tool for analyzing historical data, modeling systems, developing statistical algorithms, and learning and teaching statistics

Additional Software

If you want to use the Datafeed Toolbox to retrieve data from Bloomberg or Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) data servers, you need to install client software available from each of these companies. Contact your sales representative for information. Information about the services offered by these companies is available on the Web at http://www.bloomberg.com and
http://www.intdata.com.

Installation and Configuration

To install the Datafeed Toolbox, see the MATLAB Installation Guide for your computer system.

For information about installing Bloomberg or Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) software on your system, contact your sales representative from these companies.

Typographical Conventions Using the Datafeed Toolbox