Python for Finance

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• jackbrian · Mar 14, 2017 · Recommends

  …sensationalist EDIT: If you're planning on using Python (a solid bet)... -Python for Data Analysis (Wes McKinney) - Great, quick book for Pandas by former AQR (and now Two Sigma?) guy. -Yves Hilpisch books: "Python for Finance" is introductory while "Derivative Analytics in Python" is quite math heavy.

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• big_youth · May 1, 2014 · Recommends

  …Note, I am Continuum Analytics[1] alumni, of which is Yves J. Hilpisch is the European director and whose CEO was the lead contributer to NumPy for many years. So my endorsement is not against Packt's Python for Finance but rather for O'Reillys Python for Finance based on previous work and experience of the Author. [0] http://www.python-for-finance.com/ [1] http://continuum.io/

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• westurner · Mar 8, 2019 · Recommends

  Thanks for the wealth of resources in this post. Here are a few more: "Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data" (2014, 2018) https://g.co/kgs/qkY8J6 ... https://pyalgo.tpq.io also includes the "Finance with Python" course and this book as a PDF and Jupyter notebooks. Quantopian put…

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• Unknomad · Apr 22, 2022 · Recommends

  …That's an awesome practice i think. You would be amazed on how simple they can be. Also some books i would recommend are: - Hands on Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading, Stefan Jansen, Packt - Python for Finance Cookbook, Eryk Lewinson, Packt Cheers!

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• haileris · Dec 16, 2019 · Mentions

  …Techniques, and Tools Lions' Commentary on Unix TCP/IP Illustrated Finance/Econ/Business: Liar's Poker Investor Z (Manga) Trading & Exchanges Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options Python for Finance: Mastering Data-Driven Finance Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on it Alpha Masters Fooling Some of the People All of Time Dark Pools When Genius Failed Advances in Financial Machine Learning Algorithmic…

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• TACIXAT · Jun 2, 2017 · Critical

  …what they covered, intro to pandas and a simple strategy. There is a lot of educational material on their site too (which is what you ended up getting in the paid training). My biggest thing with the Python for Finance books - I know Python, I want to learn finance. All these books are the inverse of that, for people who know finance and want to learn Python. There is a good site for quantitative economics [1] that…

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• westurner · Mar 1, 2024 · Mentions

  SHMT (2024) has a probably faster blackscholes_2d implementation: https://github.com/jk78346/SHMT/blob/main/src/kernels/functi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515038 "Python for Finance", 2nd Edition (py4fi2nd) has a chapter on BSM with notebooks and a module: https://github.com/yhilpisch/py4fi2nd/tree/master/code/ch12 https://home.tpq.io/books/py4fi/ GH topic: black-scholes: https://github.com/topics/black-scholes

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