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Python for Finance

By : Yuxing Yan
Book Image

Python for Finance

By: Yuxing Yan

Overview of this book

A hands-on guide with easy-to-follow examples to help you learn about option theory, quantitative finance, financial modeling, and time series using Python. Python for Finance is perfect for graduate students, practitioners, and application developers who wish to learn how to utilize Python to handle their financial needs. Basic knowledge of Python will be helpful but knowledge of programming is necessary.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Alternative installation via Anaconda

In Chapter 6, Introduction to NumPy and SciPy, we discussed the dependency of a module. Because of such a dependency, it might be very difficult to install a module independently since it depends on many other modules. In this book, we use the so-called super-packages. If one of them is installed, most of our modules are installed simultaneously. We choose Anaconda. To install Anaconda, we have the following two steps:

  1. Go to http://continuum.io/downloads.
  2. Choose an appropriate package to download and install.