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Mastering Python for Finance
Mastering Python for Finance

Mastering Python for Finance: Implement advanced state-of-the-art financial statistical applications using Python , Second Edition

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Mastering Python for Finance

Section 1: Getting Started with Python

This section will help us to set up Python on our machine in preparation for running code examples in this book.

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  • Chapter 1, Overview of Financial Analysis with Python
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Key benefits

  • Explore advanced financial models used by the industry and ways of solving them using Python
  • Build state-of-the-art infrastructure for modeling, visualization, trading, and more
  • Empower your financial applications by applying machine learning and deep learning

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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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a financial or data analyst or a software developer in the financial industry who is interested in using advanced Python techniques for quantitative methods in finance, this is the book you need! You will also find this book useful if you want to extend the functionalities of your existing financial applications by using smart machine learning techniques. Prior experience in Python is required.

What you will learn

  • Solve linear and nonlinear models representing various financial problems
  • Perform principal component analysis on the DOW index and its components
  • Analyze, predict, and forecast stationary and non-stationary time series processes
  • Create an event-driven backtesting tool and measure your strategies
  • Build a high-frequency algorithmic trading platform with Python
  • Replicate the CBOT VIX index with SPX options for studying VIX-based strategies
  • Perform regression-based and classification-based machine learning tasks for prediction
  • Use TensorFlow and Keras in deep learning neural network architecture
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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Section 1: Getting Started with Python Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Overview of Financial Analysis with Python Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Financial Concepts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Importance of Linearity in Finance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Nonlinearity in Finance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Numerical Methods for Pricing Options Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Modeling Interest Rates and Derivatives Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Statistical Analysis of Time Series Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: A Hands-On Approach Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Interactive Financial Analytics with the VIX Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building an Algorithmic Trading Platform Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing a Backtesting System Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Machine Learning for Finance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deep Learning for Finance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Llegó en buen estado y era lo que esperaba.
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This book is a must-read for anyone aspiring or practicing in the field of quantitative finance. James' work is extremely well-written, easy to follow, and detailed.As a financial engineer, I use numerical methods in my daily life; most of these I thought were only possible in lower-level languages. I was incredibly shocked to learn that all of these advanced mathematical methodologies can be written in Python and used for practical applications in algorithmic trading. In addition to walking the reader through these methods step-by-step, James teaches the reader how to build a real, working algorithmic trading strategy (several of them actually) and gives the reader the tools to backtest and implement the strategy for their own use!This is the first book, to my knowledge, that covers these incredibly important steps and does so in a way that programmers of all experience-levels can understand. Absolutely brilliant work!Note: The screenshot is taken from the output of my pairs trading (statistical arbitrage) strategy that I built and traded on InteractiveBrokers - all thanks to James' work!
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Trying to introduce the entire world of Finance Computing is a real stretch or any reference book and this one is short a few critical sections, but I applaud this effort to cover it all. Financial concepts and supporting mathematics are covered decently, but are largely isolated from the full coding examples. This may be because it will save space.Warning: As in the first edition, All code files are of type "ipynb". This will require the use of Jupyter Notebook to display them on screen! So get ready to learn a new IDE to apply this book. See Packt Books for code downloads.API access to Alpha Advantage and Quandl financial data sources are only superficially covered in the book. Critical program coding that explains the API is missing in both cases. I hope that the recommended Jupyter Notebook won't prove to be non intuitive to use to see all the supporting code.Finally, I missed seeing any coding support for access to databases such as MySQL or 'kdb'. I think the author is primarily a concept thinker and leaves the detail work to his assistants. But for us, we need more handholding to make the entire concept framework pay off. So I recommend that you add other references such as "Python GUI Programming Cookbook" and/or "Hands-On Web Scraping with Python" to fill in the missing pieces.
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The author maybe has some knowledge of ML, but seems to not really understand financial time series.From using the entire dataset for min/max scaling to predicting price there isn’t much for some to actually learn anything useful.
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