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…