Course Outline

Introduction

Setting up the Development Environment

  • Programming locally vs online: Anaconda and Jupyter

Python Programming Fundamentals

  • Control structures, data types, functions, data structures and operators

Extending Python's Capabilities

  • Modules and Packages

Your first Python Application

  • Estimating beginning and ending dates and times

Accessing External Data with Python

  • Importing and exporting, reading and writing CSV data
  • Accessing data in an SQL database

Organizing Data Using Arrays and Vectors in Python

  • NumPy and vectorized functions

Visualizing Data with Python

  • Matplotlib for 2D and 3D plotting, pyplot, and SciPy

Analyzing Data with Python

  • Data analysis with scipy.stats and pandas
  • Importing and exporting financial data (Excel, website data, etc.)

Simulating Asset Price Trajectories

  • Monte Carlo simulation

Asset Allocation and Portfolio Optimization

  • Performing capital allocation, asset allocation, and risk assessment

Risk Analysis and Investment Performance

  • Defining and solving portfolio optimization problems

Fixed-Income Analysis and Option Pricing

  • Performing fixed-income analysis and option pricing

Financial Time Series Analysis

  • Analyzing time series data in financial markets

Taking Your Python Application into Production

  • Integrating your application with Excel and other web applications

Application Performance

  • Optimizing your application
  • Parallel Computing and Multiprocessing

Troubleshooting

Closing Remarks

Requirements

  • An understanding of finance (securities, derivatives, etc.)
  • A general understanding of probability and statistics
  • Elementary differential and integral calculus
 35 Hours

Number of participants



Price per participant

Open Training Courses require 5+ participants.

Testimonials (3)

Examples/exercices perfectly adapted to our domain

Luc - CS Group
Course - Scaling Data Analysis with Python and Dask

The fact of having more practical exercises using more similar data to what we use in our projects (satellite images in raster format)

Matthieu - CS Group
Course - Scaling Data Analysis with Python and Dask

The trainer was very available to answer all te kind of question I did

Caterina - Stamtech
Course - Developing APIs with Python and FastAPI

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