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Python for Finance

You're reading from   Python for Finance If your interest is finance and trading, then using Python to build a financial calculator makes absolute sense. As does this book which is a hands-on guide covering everything from option theory to time series.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783284375
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yuxing Yan Yuxing Yan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Installation of Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Python as an Ordinary Calculator 3. Using Python as a Financial Calculator 4. 13 Lines of Python to Price a Call Option 5. Introduction to Modules 6. Introduction to NumPy and SciPy 7. Visual Finance via Matplotlib 8. Statistical Analysis of Time Series 9. The Black-Scholes-Merton Option Model 10. Python Loops and Implied Volatility 11. Monte Carlo Simulation and Options 12. Volatility Measures and GARCH Index

Chapter 6. Introduction to NumPy and SciPy

In this chapter, we will introduce the two most important modules, called NumPy and SciPy, which are used intensively for scientific and financial computation based on Python. In this book, many chapters and modules depend on these two modules.

In particular, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installation of NumPy and SciPy
  • Launching Python from Anaconda
  • Examples of using NumPy and SciPy
  • Showing all functions in NumPy and SciPy
  • Getting more information about a specific function
  • Understanding the list data type
  • Array in NumPy, logic relationship related to arrays
  • Working with arrays of ones, zeros, and identity matrix
  • Performing array operations: +, -, *, and /
  • The x.sum() dot function
  • Looping through an array
  • A list of subpackages for SciPy
  • Cumulative standard normal distribution
  • Generating random numbers
  • Statistic submodule (stats) from SciPy
  • Interpolation, linear equations, and optimization
  • Linear regression and Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM)
  • Retrieving...
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