NumXL 1.56 (Zebra) Release Notes
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Slides notes about the new dates, holidays and calendar functionality introduced in NumXL Pro 1.56 (code - ZEBRA). http://www.spiderfinancial.com/support/blog/numxl/2012/numxl-156-zebra
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NumXL 1.56 (Zebra) Release Notes
- 1. Spider Financial NumXL 1.56 ZEBRA What’s New? www.spiderfinancial.com 1
- 2. NumXL 1.56 (ZEBRA) New Functions Weekends – Western and international weekend conventions. Holidays – U.S. and non-U.S. based holidays Calendars – Public/government and bank holidays calendars. Date – e.g. NxNWKDY, etc. www.spiderfinancial.com 2
- 3. Weekend Support Define days of the week that are weekends Weekend number and weekend string (7-characters) notations (Excel 2010). Long-weekend support – discovery, duration and proximity from next/last. www.spiderfinancial.com 3
- 4. Holidays Include public and bank holidays for: United States (USA) Saudi Arabia (SAR) European union Countries (EUC), Great Britain (GBR) Switzerland (CHE) Japan (JPN) Australia (AUS) New Zealand (NZL) Canada (CAN) Israel (ISR) 4 www.spiderfinancial.com
- 5. Holidays - Contd New Holidays functions – Given a list of holidays (codes) NxIsHoliday – examines the date if it falls on a holiday NxHolidays – returns a list of supported holidays NxFindHLDY – returns the holiday name for a given date NxHLDYDates - returns holiday dates between two dates NxHLDYDate – returns next/last holiday date. www.spiderfinancial.com 5
- 6. Holidays Sources References U.S. – U.S. government federal holidays - www.opm.gov/operating_status_schedules/fedhol/2012.asp Time and Date website – www.timeanddate.com/holidays www.spiderfinancial.com 6
- 7. Holidays Calendar A calendar is a collection of a holidays and a weekend definition. The country ISO code is used for public calendars The currency ISO code is used for bank calendars. Supported holidays USA – public (US) and bank (USD) CAN – bank (CAD) Switzerland –bank (CHF) Australia –bank (AUD) European Union – bank (EUR) Britain –bank (GBP) Israel –Bank (ILS) Japan –bank (JPY) New Zealand –bank (NZD) Saudi Arabia – public (SAU) www.spiderfinancial.com 7
- 8. Date Functions Built-in support for weekend, holidays and calendars: NxAdjust – Move date to next working day using a Business day convention (DBC). NxNWKDY – Get the date for nth weekday (e.g. 3rd Friday) in a month. NxNetWorkdays – number of workday between two dates NxEDate – calculate date that falls after a given period (e.g. O/N, 3d, -2Weeks, 1-Quarter, etc.) www.spiderfinancial.com 8
- 9. Q&A What happens now to CalXL? CalXL is no longer planned as a separate product. We’ve moved the majority of CalXL functions to NumXL 1.56, and we plan to move the remaining ones in future releases. Why? From our users’ perspective, they need holidays functionality to examine/adjust for holiday/trading days bias in the analysis. From our perspective, merging the two together saves us time and resources and makes our product more valuable to our users. www.spiderfinancial.com
- 10. Q&A – Cont’d What’s to come next? With respect to Date and Calendar functions: 1. New holidays and calendar definitions 2. Support for economics data events (e.g. employment numbers, etc.) How can I help? Let us know what you would like to see in NumXL future releases. www.spiderfinancial.com/forums OR support@spiderfinancial.com www.spiderfinancial.com 10
- 11. Thank you! Spider Financial Corp 1507 E 53rd Street, Ste. 480 Chicago, IL 60615 (888)427-9486 +1 (312) 324-0367 www.spiderfinancial.com info@spiderfinancial.com www.spiderfinancial.com 11
Editor's Notes
- NumXL 1.56 (ZEBRA – release name).This release is aimed on moving the date and calendar functionality from CalXL to NumXL.
- In sum, we have added support for the following:International weekend – The user can specify which day(s) of the weeks corresponds to weekendHolidays – we have added public holidays (notation, historicals and rules for applying when no record is found)Calendar – defining a calendar as a collection of holidays and a weekends convention simplifies the use of holiday and date functions.Date – these are similar to Excel function except they work with holidays and calendars defined earlier.
- For weekend, we have added support for International weekend; such that user can specify which day(s) of the weeks corresponds to weekend.Furthermore, using the holidays or a calendar, we can distinguish and predict short/long weekends. The notion of short/long weekend is a phenomena that traders check for.
- Fore Holiday, we have defined the public holidays for 10 major countries. A holiday is typically prefixed by the country ISO code (e.g. USA, GBR, etc.)
- We also added several functions to query the supported holidays and calculate the holiday date(s) that precedes, succeeds or falls between a date range.
- For holidays historical occurrences, we have used public sources. If you know of another one, please send it our way.
- A calendar is a mechanism to collect logically a number of holidays under a single code/name, such that user can pass the calendar code instead of the holidays codes/date in any function.For this release, we have defined the public and bank holidays for major countries and currencies.
- The date functions take full advantage of the weekend, holiday and calendar functions. They implement functions that we often face in our calendar analysis.
- Now, I open the door for Q&A session.