Python for Finance

A hands-on guide with easy-to-follow examples to help you learn about option theory, quantitative finance, financial modeling, and time series using Python.

Python for Finance is perfect for graduate students, practitioners, and application developers who wish to learn how to utilize Python to handle their financial needs. Basic knowledge of Python will be helpful but knowledge of programming is necessary.

Yuxing Yan

Yuxing Yan graduated from McGill university with a PhD in finance. He has taught various finance courses, such as Financial Modeling, Options and Futures, Portfolio Theory, Quantitative Financial Analysis, Corporate Finance, and Introduction to Financial Databases to undergraduate and graduate students at seven universities: two in Canada, one in Singapore, and four in the USA. Dr. Yan has actively done research with several publications in Journal of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Real Estate Review, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Applied Financial Economics, and Annals of Operations Research. For example, his latest publication, coauthored with Shaojun Zhang, will appear in the Journal of Banking and Finance in 2014. His research areas include investment, market microstructure, and open source finance. He is proficient at several computer languages such as SAS, R, MATLAB, C, and Python. From 2003 to 2010, he worked as a technical director at Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), where he debugged several hundred computer programs related to research for WRDS users. After that, he returned to teaching in 2010 and introduced R into several quantitative courses at two universities. Based on lecture notes, he has the first draft of an unpublished manuscript titled Financial Modeling using R. In addition, he is an expert on financial data. While teaching at NTU in Singapore, he offered a course called Introduction to Financial Databases to doctoral students. While working at WRDS, he answered numerous questions related to financial databases and helped update CRSP, Compustat, IBES, and TAQ (NYSE highfrequency database). In 2007, Dr. Yan and S.W. Zhu (his coauthor) published a book titled Financial Databases, Shiwu Zhu and Yuxing Yan, Tsinghua University Press. Currently, he spends considerable time and effort on public financial data. If you have any queries, you can always contact him at yany@canisius.edu.