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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

Chooser options


For a chooser option, it allows the option buyer to choose, at a predetermined point of time before the option matures whether it is a European call or a European put. For a simple chooser option, the underlying call and put options have the same maturities and exercise prices. Let's look at two extreme cases. The option buyer has to make a decision today, that is, when they make such a purchase. The price of this chooser option should be the maximum of call and put options since the option buyer does not have more information. The second extreme case is the investor could make a decision on the maturity date. Since the call and put have the same exercise prices, if the call is in the money, the put should be out of money. The opposite is true. Thus, the price of a chooser option should be the summation of the call and the put. This is equivalent to buy a call and a put with the same exercise prices and maturity dates. In Chapter 10, Options and Futures we know such a trading...