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Introduction

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Local vs. Online Programming: 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 start and end 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

Deploying Your Python Application to Production

  • Integrating your application with Excel and other web applications

Application Performance

  • Optimizing your application
  • Parallel Computing and Multiprocessing

Troubleshooting

Closing Remarks

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of finance (including securities, derivatives, etc.)
  • A general knowledge of probability and statistics
  • Basic understanding of differential and integral calculus
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