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Python for Finance - Second Edition

By : Yuxing Yan
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Book Image

Python for Finance - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Yuxing Yan

Overview of this book

This book uses Python as its computational tool. Since Python is free, any school or organization can download and use it. This book is organized according to various finance subjects. In other words, the first edition focuses more on Python, while the second edition is truly trying to apply Python to finance. The book starts by explaining topics exclusively related to Python. Then we deal with critical parts of Python, explaining concepts such as time value of money stock and bond evaluations, capital asset pricing model, multi-factor models, time series analysis, portfolio theory, options and futures. This book will help us to learn or review the basics of quantitative finance and apply Python to solve various problems, such as estimating IBM’s market risk, running a Fama-French 3-factor, 5-factor, or Fama-French-Carhart 4 factor model, estimating the VaR of a 5-stock portfolio, estimating the optimal portfolio, and constructing the efficient frontier for a 20-stock portfolio with real-world stock, and with Monte Carlo Simulation. Later, we will also learn how to replicate the famous Black-Scholes-Merton option model and how to price exotic options such as the average price call option.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Python for Finance Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Credit default swap


A lender could buy a so-called credit default swap (CDS) to protect them in the event of default. The buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if the loan defaults. Let's see a simple example. A fund just bought $100 million corporate bonds with a maturity of 15 years. If the issuing firm does not default, the pension fund would enjoy interest payment every year plus $100 million at maturity. To protect their investment, they entered a 15-year CDS contract with a financial institution. Based on the credit worthiness of the bond issuing firm, the agreed spread is 80 basis points payable annually. This means that every year, the pension fund (CDS buyer) pays the financial institution (CDS seller) $80,000 per year over the next 10 years. If a credit event happens, the CDS seller would compensate the CDS buyer depending on their loss because of credit events. If the contract specifies a physical settlement, the CDS buyer...