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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

Chapter 10. Options and Futures

In modern finance, the option theory (including futures and forwards) and its applications play an important role. Many trading strategies, corporate incentive plans, and hedging strategies include various types of options. For example, many executive incentive plans are based on stock options. Assume that an importer located in the US has just ordered a piece of machinery from England with a payment of £10 million in three months. The importer has a currency risk (or exchange rate risk). If the pound depreciates against the US dollar, the importer would be better off since he/she pays less US dollars to buy £10 million. On the contrary, if the pound appreciates against the US dollar, then the importer would suffer a loss. There are several ways that the importer could avoid or reduce such a risk: buy pounds right now, enter a futures market to buy pounds with a fixed exchange rate determined today, or long a call option with a fixed exercise price. In this...