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A simple Python class designed to facilitate investment portfolio analysis
Background
In an attempt to learn a bit more about investing and economics, I've begun writing a simple historical portfolio analysis tool in Python.
The ...
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edgar: Programmatic access to SEC's Edgar API in Python / via command-line
As indicated in the title, this small project fetches content from the SEC's Edgar REST API. It was designed with the intention of automatically gathering/refreshing large datasets of public company ...
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Fixing math library functions in Black-Scholes options pricing model
I've amended a code for the Black-Scholes formula for European pricing options found here at the bottom of the page and fixed the math functions accordingly. Unlike the code on the website, mine has ...
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Geektrust coding challenge: simulating a marketplace for loans
This is the my solution to a coding challenge in Geektrust. The question is linked here.
A shortened version would be as follows.
The aim is to simulate a marketplace for banks to lend money to ...
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Simple credit card validation with Luhn's Algorithm
Originally written in C (which was abysmal, you may check here if you want), I rewrote my simple credit card validation program using Python
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quant. code. to calculate trend, momentum, correlation and volatility in Pandas(Python)
I am new to quant. finance and trying to calculate trend, momentum, correlation and ...
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A Credit Payment Calculator
So I've attempted this project from hyperskills where you're asked to make a calculator script that can calculate annuity and differentiated payments given that 3 of 4 values are known. I think i went ...
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Analyze Stock Market Bottom Timing without Looping over Data Frame Rows
I am replicating this blog post in Python.
The blog post shows that even if you know future stock market bottoms, only buying stocks when the stock market is below future stock market bottoms provides ...
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Calculate quote volumes (for a financial instrument) within numeric constraints
The function below is part of a trading system. Its purpose is to assign a volume (order size) to a bid (buy) quote and and ask (sell) quote, depending on the value of the ...
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Get Asset Returns for multiple Tickers and Holding Periods
I've written some code that will take multiple stock tickers and calculate their returns over yearly, monthly, bi-weekly, and weekly holding periods. The results are written to an xlsx file.
I'm ...
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Calculating the necessary contribution to attain a savings goal with compound interest
This is a problem set from the MIT online course :
Suppose you want to set a particular goal, e.g. to be able to afford
the down payment in three years. How much should you save each month
to ...
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Pulling financial data via IEX Cloud API
I am pulling some financial data from the IEX Cloud API. Since it is a paid API w/ rate limits, I would like to do this as efficiently as possible (i.e., as few calls as possible). Given that the <...
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Income tax calculator [closed]
I've just started coding and have written a program to calculate your tax to be paid. Is there anywhere where I can improve this?
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Return timeframes relevant to just-elapsed time period (financial/trading context)
I am writing trading software, and have written this utility function. Its purpose is to return a list of timeframes relevant to the just-elapsed time period. "Timeframe" here means bar or candle ...
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Python maintain precision for currency
Working with currencies I am aware it is not good to work with floating point values due to rounding and maintaining precision. Better is to work with integers. Would the following Currency class make ...
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