visualizeFXrates

JoeY
2014-11-15

Motivation

Money may not buy happiness, but you can trade it for fun and a few things you need.

Foreign currency exchanges are a wildly dynamic space, where the value of currencies change by the minute.

This applications aims to help visualize a couple of those dynamics.

Currency Traders

The Views

We give you several views that offer various insights

  • A basic time series rate plot, showing the daily closing price for a currency over a time range you specify
  • Some analytic plots commonly used to guide currency trading decisions (Fibonacci retracements and moving average convergence divergence)
  • An experimental tool for determining whether, how, and at what price rounding bias may be affecting currency prices in a given pair over a specified time period

Get Fibonacci Retracements

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Explore Round Number Bias

  • Do human traders affect the price a given currency pair?
  • What is the scale of that effect?
  • What digits does the market tend to round in your pair?
  • Set a currency pair, date range, and digit. We'll show you.

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Take it for a spin

The app is hosted on ShinyApps: (https://yeckley.shinyapps.io/simple_app/)

A short instruction manual is on Rpubs: (http://rpubs.com/jeckley/currXuserGuide)