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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

Python modules related to finance


Since this book is applying Python to finance, the modules (packages) related to finance will be our first priority.

The following table presents about a dozen Python modules or submodules related to finance:

Name

Description

Numpy.lib.financial

Many functions for corporate finance and financial management.

pandas_datareader

Retrieves data from Google, Yahoo! Finance, FRED, Fama-French factors.

googlefinance

Python module to get real-time (no delay) stock data from Google Finance API.

yahoo-finance

Python module to get stock data from Yahoo! Finance.

Python_finance

Download and analyze Yahoo! Finance data and develop trading strategies.

tstockquote

Retrieves stock quote data from Yahoo! Finance.

finance

Financial risk calculations. Optimized for ease of use through class construction and operator overload.

quant

Enterprise architecture for quantitative analysis in finance.

tradingmachine

A backtester for financial...