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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 via Canopy


This section is optional, especially for readers who have no issues with Python or Python via Anaconda. It is a good idea to have another super package to make our programming in Python easier. In this section, we will discuss two simple tasks: how to install Python via Canopy and how to check and install various Python modules. To install Python, go to the related web page at https://store.enthought.com/downloads/#default. After that, you will see the following screen:

Depending on the operating system; you could download Canopy, such as winders 32-bit. After launching Canopy, the following screen will appear:

The two most used panels are Editor and Package Manager. After clicking Editor, the following panel will pop up:

Obviously, we could create a new file or select files from our existing programs. Let's try the simplest one; see the following screenshot. After clicking the green bottom, we can run the program:

Alternatively, we could click Run on the menu bar and then...