annualTradingDays#

Purpose#

Computes number of trading days in a given year.

Format#

n = annualTradingDays(a)#

Parameters:: a (scalar) – year.
Returns:: n (scalar) – number of trading days in year.

Remarks#

A trading day is a weekday that is not a holiday as defined by the New York Stock Exchange from 1888 through 2020. Holidays are defined in holidays.asc. You may edit that file to modify or add holidays.

Globals#

_fin_annualTradingDays#

_fin_holidays#

Examples#

// Get the number of NYSE trading days in 2023
n = annualTradingDays(2023);
print (n);

The above code sets n to 250.

// Compare trading days across years
for i (2020, 2024, 1);
    n = annualTradingDays(i);
    print i;; print " trading days: ";; print n;
endfor;

Source#

finutils.src