Python for Finance: Investment Fundamentals & Data Analytics

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                                    Medium of instructions
                                    English

                                    Mode of learning
                                    Self study

                                    Mode of Delivery
                                    Video and Text Based

Welcome! Course Introduction

What Does the Course Cover?
Download Useful Resources - Exercises and Solution

Introduction to Programming with Programing

Programming Explained in 5 Minutes
Programming Explained in 5 Minutes
Why Python?
Why Python?
Why Jupyter?
Why Jupyter?
Installing Python and Jupyter
Jupyter’s Interface – the Dashboard
Jupyter’s Interface – Prerequisites for Coding
Jupyter’s Interface
Python 2 vs Python 3: What's the Difference?

Python Variables and Data Types

Variables
Variables
Numbers and Boolean Values
Numbers and Boolean Values
Strings
Strings

Basic Python Syntax

Arithmetic Operators
Arithmetic Operators
The Double Equality Sign
The Double Equality Sign
Reassign Values
Reassign values
Add Comments
Add Comments
Line Continuation
Indexing Elements
Indexing Elements
Structure Your Code with Indentation
Structure Your Code with Indentation

Python Operators Continued

Comparison Operators
Comparison Operators
Logical and Identity Operators
Logical and Identity Operators

Conditional statement

Introduction to the IF statement
Introduction to the IF statement
Add an ELSE statement
Else if, for Brief - ELIF
A Note on Boolean Values
A Note on Boolean Values

Python Function

Defining a Function in Python
Creating a Function with a Parameter
Another Way to Define a Function
Another Way to Define a Function
Using a Function in another Function
Combining Conditional Statements and Functions
Creating Functions Containing a Few Arguments
Notable Built-in Functions in Python
Functions

Python Sequences

Lists
Lists
Using Methods
Using Methods
List Slicing
Tuples
Dictionaries
Dictionaries

Using Iterations in Python

For Loops
For Loops
While Loops and Incrementing
Create Lists with the range() Function
Create Lists with the range() Function
Use Conditional Statements and Loops Together
All In – Conditional Statements, Functions, and Loops
Iterating over Dictionaries

Advance Python tools

Object Oriented Programming
Object Oriented Programming - Quiz
Modules and Packages
Modules - Quiz
The Standard Library
The Standard Library - Quiz
Importing Modules
Importing Modules - Quiz
Must-have packages for Finance and Data Science
Must-have packages - Quiz
Working with arrays
Generating Random Numbers
A Note on Using Financial Data in Python
Sources of Financial Data
Accessing the Notebook Files
Importing and Organizing Data in Python – part I
Importing and Organizing Data in Python – part II.A
Importing and Organizing Data in Python – part II.B
Importing and Organizing Data in Python – part III
Changing the Index of Your Time-Series Data
Restarting the Jupyter Kernel

Part II- FINANCE: Calculates and Comparing Rates of Return in Python

Considering both risk and returna
Risk and return - Quiz
What are we going to see next?
Calculating a security's rate of return
Calculating a security's rate of return
Calculating a Security’s Rate of Return in Python – Simple Returns – Part I
Calculating a Security’s Rate of Return in Python – Simple Returns – Part II
Calculating a Security’s Return in Python – Logarithmic Returns
What is a portfolio of securities and how to calculate its rate of return
What is a portfolio of securities and how to calculate its rate of return - Quiz
Calculating a Portfolio of Securities' Rate of Return
Popular stock indices that can help us understand financial markets
Which of the following is not an index? - Quiz
Calculating the Indices' Rate of Return

Part II- FINANCE: Measuring Investment Risk

How do we measure a security's risk?
Which of the following sentences is true? - Quiz
Calculating the Security's Risk In Python
The benefits of portfolio diversification
Investing in stocks - Quiz
Calculating the covariance between securities
Covariance - Quiz
Measuring the correlation between stocks
Correlation - Quiz
Calculating Covariance and Correlation
Considering the risk of multiple securities in a portfolio
Calculating Portfolio Risk
Understanding Systematic vs. Idiosyncratic risk
Diversifiable Risk - Quiz
Calculating Diversifiable and Non-Diversifiable Risk of a Portfolio

Part II- FINANCE: Using Regressions for Financial Analysis

The fundamentals of simple regression analysis
Regressions - Quiz
Running a Regression in Python
Are all regressions created equal? Learning how to distinguish good regressions
Regressions - Quiz
Computing Alpha, Beta, and R Squared in Python

Part II- FINANCE: Markowitz Portfolio Optimization

Markowitz Portfolio Theory - One of the main pillars of the modern Finance
Markowitz - Quiz
Obtaining the Efficient Frontier in Python – Part I
Obtaining the Efficient Frontier in Python – Part II
Obtaining the Efficient Frontier in Python – Part III

Part II- FINANCE: The Capital Asset Pricing Model

The intuition behind the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
CAPM - Quiz
Understanding and calculating a security's Beta
Beta - Quiz
Calculating the Beta of a Stock
The CAPM formula
CAPM - Quiz
Calculating the Expected Return of a Stock (CAPM)
Introducing the Sharpe ratio and how to put it into practice
Sharpe ratios - Quiz
Obtaining the Sharpe ratio in Python
Measuring alpha and verifying how good (or bad) a portfolio manager is doing
Alpha - Quiz

Part II- FINANCE: Multivariate regression analysis

Multivariate regression analysis - a valuable tool for finance practitioners
Multivariate Regressions - Quiz
Running a multivariate regression in Python

Part II- FINANCE: Monte Carlo simulation as a decision-making tool

The essence of Monte Carlo simulations
Monte Carlo - Quiz
Monte Carlo applied in a Corporate Finance context
Monte Carlo in Corporate Finance - Quiz
Monte Carlo: Predicting Gross Profit – Part I
Forecasting Stock Prices with a Monte Carlo Simulation
Monte Carlo Simulations - Quiz
Monte Carlo: Forecasting Stock Prices - Part I
Monte Carlo: Forecasting Stock Prices - Part II
Monte Carlo: Forecasting Stock Prices - Part III
An Introduction to Derivative Contracts
Derivatives - Quiz
The Black Scholes Formula for Option Pricing
Monte Carlo: Black-Scholes-Merton
Using Monte Carlo with Black-Scholes-Merton - Quiz
Monte Carlo: Euler Discretization - Part I
Monte Carlo: Euler Discretization - Part II

APPENDIX- pandas Fundamentals

pandas Series - Introduction
pandas - Working with Methods - Part I
pandas - Working with Methods - Part II
pandas - Using Parameters and Arguments
pandas Series - .unique() and .nunique()
pandas Series - .sort_values()
pandas DataFrames - Introduction - Part I
pandas DataFrames - Introduction - Part II
pandas DataFrames - Common Attributes
pandas DataFrames - Data Selection
pandas DataFrames - Data Selection with .iloc[]
pandas DataFrames - Data Selection with .loc[]

APPENDIX-Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis - Principles, Applications, Assumptions
Charts Used in Technical Analysis
Other Tools Used in Technical Analysis
Trend, Support and Resistance Lines
Common Chart Patterns
Price Indicators
Momentum Oscillators
Non-price Based Indicators
Technical Analysis - Cycles
Intermarket Analysis

BONUS LECTURE

Bonus Lecture: Next Steps

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