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F# for Quantitative Finance

By : Johan Astborg
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F# for Quantitative Finance

By: Johan Astborg

Overview of this book

F# is a functional programming language that allows you to write simple code for complex problems. Currently, it is most commonly used in the financial sector. Quantitative finance makes heavy use of mathematics to model various parts of finance in the real world. If you are interested in using F# for your day-to-day work or research in quantitative finance, this book is a must-have.This book will cover everything you need to know about using functional programming for quantitative finance. Using a functional programming language will enable you to concentrate more on the problem itself rather than implementation details. Tutorials and snippets are summarized into an automated trading system throughout the book.This book will introduce you to F#, using Visual Studio, and provide examples with functional programming and finance combined. The book also covers topics such as downloading, visualizing and calculating statistics from data. F# is a first class programming language for the financial domain.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
F# for Quantitative Finance
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we looked into using F# for investigating different aspects of volatility. Volatility is an interesting dimension of finance where you quickly dive into complex theories and models. Here it's very much helpful to have a powerful tool such as F# and F# Interactive. We've just scratched the surface of options and volatility in this chapter. There is a lot more to cover, but that's outside the scope of this book.

Most of the content here will be used in the trading system that we will develop in the following chapters of this book. In the next chapter, we'll begin to look at the first pragmatic building blocks of our trading system: orders and order types. We'll also cover some aspects of pre-trade risk and how F# can help us model these.