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Python for Finance

Python for Finance

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Python for Finance

Python for Finance

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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 (17 chapters)
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Diving into deeper concepts

The focus of this chapter will be on how to retrieve economic, finance, and accounting related data, especially public data. For example, Yahoo Finance offers rich data, such as historical trading price, current price, option data, annual and quarterly financial statements, and bond data. Such publicly available data could be used to estimate β (market risk), volatility (total risk), Sharpe ratio, Jensen's alpha, Treynor ratio, liquidity, transaction costs, and conduct financial statement analysis (ratio analysis) and performance evaluation. In future chapters, the topics mentioned would be discussed in more detail. For the public data related to economics, finance, and accounting, many wonderful sources are available, see the following table:

Name

Data types

Yahoo Finance

Historical price, annual and quarterly financial statements, and so on

Google Finance

Current, historical trading prices

Federal Reserve Economic Data

Interest rates, rates...

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