Lewinson, Eryk
Python for Finance Cookbook: Over 50 recipes for applying modern Python libraries to financial data analysis
- ISBN 13:
- 9781789618518
- author:
- Lewinson, Eryk
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Packt Publishing Limited
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 19.1 x 2.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Computers, Programming, Python,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Mastering financial data analysis with Python is made easy with this comprehensive cookbook. By applying modern Python libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and pandas, you'll be able to tackle common and not-so-common financial problems.
This book covers a wide range of topics, from downloading and preparing financial data for modeling, to calculating popular indicators used in technical analysis and backtesting automatic trading strategies. You'll also explore time series analysis and models, including exponential smoothing, ARIMA, and GARCH, as well as optimizing asset allocation and using Monte Carlo simulations.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained practical skills to analyze financial data using a recipe-based approach, covering topics such as credit card fraud detection, default prediction, and deep learning with PyTorch. With over 50 recipes to get you started, you'll be equipped to tackle a variety of financial challenges.