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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

What is a Python module?


A module is a package or group of programs that is written by an expert, user, or even a beginner who is usually very good in a specific area, to serve a specific purpose.

For example, a Python module called quant is for quantitative financial analysis. quant combines two modules of SciPy and DomainModel. The module contains a domain model that has exchanges, symbols, markets, and historical prices, among other things. Modules are very important in Python. In this book, we will discuss about a dozen modules implicitly or explicitly. In particular, we will explain five modules in detail: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, statsmodels, and Pandas.

Note

As of November 16, 2016, there are 92,872 Python modules (packages) with different areas available according to the Python Package Index.

For the financial and insurance industries, there are 384 modules currently available.

Assume that we want to estimate the square root of 3 by using the sqrt() function. However, after issuing the...