NumXL blogs and articles

Read through the articles below to stay up to date with NumXL Pro and topics related to time series, statistics, modeling, forecasting, and many more.

News and update related to NumXL support helpdesk

New, better help desk for NumXL

We are very happy to announce the launch of a new support portal for our users. We pooled all support material in one place so that you can look up answers for your questions, create a new request or post to NumXL online community where fellow users can offer answers and share their experiences.

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NumXL 1.59 TUCSON is going into Beta

We are excited to announce the start of beta testing for NumXL’s next update – 1.59 TUCSON.

In addition to numerous fixes, the new release will support 64-bit version of Microsoft Excel 2010 and 2013, making it easier to analyze large data sets into NumXL.

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NumXL software development and release

NumXL 1.58 BAJA is out

We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of NumXL: 1.58 BAJA.

NumXL 1.58 BAJA now finally has Wizards for constructing Histogram and QQ plot, and performing common statistical tests: Normality test, White Noise Test, ARCHi Effect test and Stationary test.

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NumXL software development and release

NumXL 1.57 SINGA is here

Today we are excited to announce the release of a new version of NumXL: 1.57 SINGA (1.57.41168.2). This new release includes several new features: support

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Demystifying Trading Strategy Returns

In this paper, we’ll examine a claim by a portfolio manager (let’s call him trader B) about his ability to generate statistically significant Alpha. Alpha is the excess-return compensation for the risk borne, and thus commonly used to assess active managers’ performances. Using plain summary statistics and empirical distribution plots (e.g. Histogram, QQ-Plot), we identified a single data-point with relatively high-return, and once excluded from the sample, the so-called alpha simply vanished.

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