Description: Python has become the programming language of choice for data-driven and AI-first finance. Some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds now use Python and its ecosystem for building core trading and risk management systems. In the second edition of this guide, Yves Hilpisch shows developers and quantitative analysts how to use Python packages and tools for financial data science, algorithmic trading, and computational finance.
Brief description: Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch is founder and managing partner of The Python Quants (http: //tpq.io), a group that focuses on the use of open source technologies for financial data science, algorithmic trading and computational finance. He is the author of the books Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2014), Derivatives Analytics with Python (Wiley, 2015) and Listed Volatility and Variance Derivatives (Wiley, 2017). Yves lectures on computational finance at the CQF Program (http: //cqf.com), on data science at htw saar University of Applied Sciences (http: //htwsaar.de), and is the director for the online training program leading to the first Python for Finance University Certificate (awarded by htw saar).