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Python for Finance

You're reading from  Python for Finance

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783284375
Pages 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yuxing Yan Yuxing Yan
Profile icon Yuxing Yan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Python for Finance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Introduction and Installation of Python Using Python as an Ordinary Calculator Using Python as a Financial Calculator 13 Lines of Python to Price a Call Option Introduction to Modules Introduction to NumPy and SciPy Visual Finance via Matplotlib Statistical Analysis of Time Series The Black-Scholes-Merton Option Model Python Loops and Implied Volatility Monte Carlo Simulation and Options Volatility Measures and GARCH Index

Finding manuals and tutorials


There are many ways to find Python manuals and other related materials online. We just mentioned two ways: from your computer and from the Python home. These two ways are explained in details as follows:

To implement the first method (to have it manually installed on your computer), we need to perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Start and then on All Programs.

  2. Find Python 3.3.

  3. Click on Python Manuals as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. After we click on Python Manuals, we will see the following window:

From the Python home, the following documents can be downloaded:

For new Python learners, the following are the web pages where they could find many tutorial materials related to Python learning:

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