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The Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi» is a platform dedicated to develop, publish and disseminate specialized content on investment methodologies, economics and quantitative finance, from an algorithmic and mathematical point of view, but also qualitative (See: About Us).

All content published on the website is free to access: indicators, strategies, articles, blog posts, codes, references, manuals and methodologies.  

As for the automated early alert service for Mexican banking and credit institutions, and other similar services that will be developed in the future, they are also 100% free, but if the user wants to be notified in real time every time such information is updated, it is required to register an email address or register the page in an RSS reader, such as Feedly, FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS or CommaFeed, the latter 100% free. 

To obtain the URL address of the RSS, simply locate the following on the right-hand side of the page of each blog:

As for the indicators, strategies and signals published on the official pages, some are free and some are paid, but only if the user requires to implement them directly, without the need for additional configurations, such as servers, API's or websockets.

All the content published by the Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi», in its official website, is completely free and open access. The user may use the information published as he/she sees fit, but always under his/her own responsibility (See: Legal and Disclaimer) and as long as he/she acknowledges the reference and exact location from where it was extracted and the original author of the material, in this case, the verified author or authors of the Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi», and the laboratory itself.

According to the Berlin Declaration:

«Any literary content of the ”open access“ type refers to that which is freely available on the Internet, allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to computer programs or use them for any other lawful purpose, without any economic, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from access to the Internet itself.»

In effect, this refers to the fact that all content officially published by the Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi» is freely accessible, free of charge and without economic barriers to entry, except for the very availability of internet access for website users.

Although the Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi» shares and adheres to the values of the Open Source movement that emerged in the 80's, and that today is represented by the Open Source Initiative, by Open Source we mean that all indicators and algorithmic strategies published in our website are freely accessible and available to the users of the site to implement, modify and share them, as long as they cite the reference and exact location from where they were extracted. The plan, in the near future, is to consolidate a solid and rigorous, but also accessible and collaborative knowledge base in econometrics and quantitative finance, in all kinds of programming languages oriented to finance and economics.

The Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi» is not a financial intermediary of the Mexican financial system nor of the financial system of any country, therefore, it is not authorized to offer direct access to the regulated markets nor to the stock market instruments traded in them, nor is it authorized to assure returns on the investments of the users. The Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi» is not a financial advisor authorized to advise private individuals on how to invest their money in these markets. The Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance «Al-Juarismi» is simply an academic reference, a knowledge base for users interested in the world of quantitative finance and econometrics, offering practical solutions to specific problems, but never with the purpose of persuading site visitors on what financial decisions to make. The Laboratory of Econometrics and Quantitative Finance Laboratory may advertise, but does not oblige its authors to be empowered to advise or manage investments, as its purpose is purely academic and didactic (See: Disclaimer).