I’ve been tweeting regularly over the past few years, usually around quant finance, coding and also a bit on burgers. Last December I decided to regularly start tweeting a quant link every day, for which I used the imaginative hashtag #QuantLinkADay (yes, that hashtag took a lot of thought…!), to flag interesting quant papers (generally…
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Should I learn new programming language Julia?
by Saeed Amen •
Throughout the years, I’ve learnt many programming languages, starting with BASIC and its variants over two decades ago. Since then, I’ve done projects in numerous other languages, including perhaps more unusual languages like Haskell and Prolog, and more common ones such as Java and C, when I was at university. Through my working career, I’ve dabbled…
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How to learn Python?
by Saeed Amen •
Over the past few weeks, I’ve chatted to quite a few people who are starting to learn Python primarily to analyse financial markets and all of them were keen for a bit of guidance of where to start. Hence, I thought it would be useful to collect together a few thoughts on the subject in this blog…
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The right technology, not all of them
by Saeed Amen •
There are many things I don’t know. Even things I probably think that I know, I mostly likely don’t know as well as I think. Take for example, markets, you can sometimes think you’re close to mastering them. However, this is nearly always the point in time, when some market event happens proving that there’s always…
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What you don’t code is what counts
by Saeed Amen •
It can often be tempting to think that when programming, the most important element is the lines of code that you write. Poorly written code ends up being a nightmare to maintain. As a result, it ends up having a much higher longer term cost, if it ends up being used over many years. Thought needs…
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Building a quant platform
by Saeed Amen •
I recently went to a talk at the Python for Quants group in London started by Yves Hilpisch, which featured a talk by Mark Higgins, the co-founder of Washington Square Technologies. Mark’s talk was about the benefits of a quant platform, which can help when it comes to working together in a team. The general idea…
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New Python open source financial libraries
by Saeed Amen •
I’ve been using Python for several years and have built up a large amount of code for analysing financial markets. A year ago, I decided to open source PyThalesians, which became the no 2 Python trading library in GitHub with over 1000 stars and over 100 forks on GitHub. This week I merged PyThalesians into a…
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Which language for quant analysis?
by Saeed Amen •
I put up a poll on Twitter asking how people do their quant analysis of markets this week. The choices were R, Python, Excel and Other. In the end, the poll got over 130 votes. I also got a few other responses including “soothsaying” (well, it worked for the Romans I guess, so might be…
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Python charts tell a market story
by Saeed Amen •
“I revel in the beauty of numbers”. I wrote that line a few years ago, at the start of a novel I had begun to write. Whilst 20,000 words somehow made it from my mind to drift on to paper, the novel remains unfinished. Will I ever finish it, I have no idea? For the…