How To Install Derivatives Expert III

Derivatives Expert III for (all) Mathematica license types:

Single-User
Single-Machine
Network
webMathematica
gridMathematica

1.a Introduction

1.b Versions

2a. Installing on Microsoft Windows

2b. Installing on Linux and UNIX

2c. Installing on Mac OS X

3. Special requirements (only the database module)

1.a Introduction

Dear User of Derivatives Expert III

This is the third official release of Derivatives Expert.

If Derivatives Expert is installed correctly it will operate just like any other standard Mathematica package or notebook on any given platform.

Each license of Derivatives Expert III is delivered as "Digital Delivery" i.e. by download through the internet or by delivery through email.

(This may not apply to you: (a) Pre-2004 Derivatives Expert III customers needs an upgrade for Mathematica version 5.x compatibility. (b) Some licenses of Derivatives Expert III may require that a so-called $MachineID is sent to your distributor or Innova Financial Solutions beforehand.)

Below follows further information on how to install Derivatives Expert correctly.

1.b Versions

To install Derivatives Expert IV on Mathematica 6.x: See here.

To install Derivatives Expert III on Mathematica 5.x: See below.

To install Derivatives Expert III on Mathematica 4.x: See here.

2a. Installing on Microsoft Windows

Make a temporary directory on your computer. E.g. with your Windows file Explorer menu, click on your preferred harddrive, then select the menu item File->New->Folder, and enter the name of the folder e.g. tmp and press Enter on the keyboard. You now have a temporary directory on your computer e.g.

C:\tmp\

Download and save the licensed software in the temporary directory on your computer. You should now have the file derivativesexpert3.tar.gz in the temporary directory on your computer e.g.

C:\tmp\derivativesexpert3.tar.gz

With your unpacking software e.g. WinZip unpack the file C:\tmp\derivativesexpert3.tar.gz

With WinZip this is done by double-clicking on the filename in the Windows Explorer.

WinZip opens a window with the text "Archive contains one file: derivativesexpert3.tar Should WinZip decompress it to a temporary folder and open it?"

Click on the button Yes to this question.

A new window opens and here click on the Extract button, and a new window opens. In this window make sure that the "Extract to:" folder is C:\tmp\, that "Files" selects All files, and that "Use folder names" is unselected. Now click on the Extract button. You should now have two files (how you achieve this is unimportant):

C:\tmp\derivativesexpert3.tar.gz

C:\tmp\DerivativesExpert.tar

Locate the Mathematica Applications directory on your computer. You will probably find it at $BaseDirectory (the Mathematica directory where Mathematica related applications are available to all users on the Windows machine):

$BaseDirectory\Applications\

Move the C:\tmp\DerivativesExpert.tar file to the Applications directory. You will now have (your full path may be different):

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert.tar

With your unpacking software e.g. WinZip unpack the file DerivativesExpert.tar

With WinZip this is done by double-clicking on the filename in the Windows Explorer.

A new window opens and here click on the Extract button, and a new window opens. In this window make sure that the "Extract to:" folder is

$BaseDirectory\Applications\

and that "Files" selects All files, and that "Use folder names" is selected. Now click on the Extract button, and all of Derivatives Expert III are extracted. The total size is approximately 10 MB.

You should now have the following paths (your full path names may be different) that contain files:

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\ (contains 24 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Data\ (contains 2 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Documentation\English\ (contains 45 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Java\com\innova\derivativesexpert\database\ (contains 2 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\FrontEnd\StyleSheets\ (contains 1 file)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Kernel\ (contains 1 file)

Now start/restart Mathematica, go to the Help menu and choose Rebuild Help Index. Rebuilding the help index will take a few seconds.

Maximize the Help Window, and if you choose Add-ons in the Help menu you should now see Derivatives Expert as an item in the Add-ons menu.

The Derivatives Expert item has all the 23 notebooks as sub-items and they are numbered.

If you have placed Derivatives Expert correctly in the Applications directory, as described above, you can run the examples in the opened notebooks. To open a notebook, doubleclick on "This Opens the Package(s)" in the introduction of any one of the notebooks numbered 1-19.

The notebooks that are not numbered 1-19 are informational notebooks.

Now please open and read the guidelines in the notebook Introduction.nb. Also remember that the standard Mathematica documentation contains a lot of information about running and opening Mathematica packages and notebooks.

As of Mathematica version 5.1 there is a database application with Mathematica which may be best to use. If you wish to use the Database module of Derivatives Expert III please place one or more relevant JDBC drivers so that J/Link can see them. Please refer to the standard J/Link documentation or email us. Make sure to delete the JDBC drivers that follow with Mathematica if the one you are using is newer, refer to the standard Mathematica documentation. Relevant places to put the JDBC drivers are e.g.:

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Oracle\

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Mysql\

How To Install Derivatives Expert III

Contents

1.a Introduction

1.b Versions

2a. Installing on Microsoft Windows

2b. Installing on Linux and UNIX

2c. Installing on Mac OS X

3. Special requirements (only the database module)