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Mastering Python for Finance - Second Edition

By : James Ma Weiming
Book Image

Mastering Python for Finance - Second Edition

By: James Ma Weiming

Overview of this book

The second edition of Mastering Python for Finance will guide you through carrying out complex financial calculations practiced in the industry of finance by using next-generation methodologies. You will master the Python ecosystem by leveraging publicly available tools to successfully perform research studies and modeling, and learn to manage risks with the help of advanced examples. You will start by setting up your Jupyter notebook to implement the tasks throughout the book. You will learn to make efficient and powerful data-driven financial decisions using popular libraries such as TensorFlow, Keras, Numpy, SciPy, and scikit-learn. You will also learn how to build financial applications by mastering concepts such as stocks, options, interest rates and their derivatives, and risk analytics using computational methods. With these foundations, you will learn to apply statistical analysis to time series data, and understand how time series data is useful for implementing an event-driven backtesting system and for working with high-frequency data in building an algorithmic trading platform. Finally, you will explore machine learning and deep learning techniques that are applied in finance. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply Python to different paradigms in the financial industry and perform efficient data analysis.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Python
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Section 2: Financial Concepts
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Section 3: A Hands-On Approach

Credit card payment default prediction with Keras

Another popular deep learning Python library is Keras. In this section, we will use Keras to build a credit card payment default prediction model, and see how easy it is to construct an artificial neural network with five hidden layers, apply activation functions, and train this model as compared to TensorFlow.

Introduction to Keras

Keras is an open source deep learning library in Python, designed to be high level, user friendly, modular, and extensible. Keras was conceived to be an interface rather than a standalone machine learning framework, running on top of TensorFlow, CNTK, and Theano. Its huge community base with over 200,000 users makes it one of the most...