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cantaro86 / Financial-Models-Numerical-Methods, Hacker News

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This is a collection ofJupyter notebooksbased on different topics in the area of ​​quantitative finance.

Is this a tutorial?

Almost! 🙂

This is just a collection of topics and algorithms that in my opinion are interesting.

It contains several topics that are not so popular nowadays, but that can be very powerful. Usually, topics such as PDE methods, Lévy processes, Fourier methods or Kalman filter are not very popular among practitioners, who prefers to work with more standard tools.
The aim of these notebooks is to present these interesting topics, by showing their practical application through an interactive python implementation.

Who are these notebooks for?

Not for absolute beginners.

These topics require a basic knowledge in stochastic calculus, financial mathematics and statistics. A basic knowledge of python programming is also necessary.

In these notebooks I will not explain what is a call option, or what is a stochastic process, or a partial differential equation.
However, every time I will introduce a concept, I will also add a link to the corresponding wiki page or to a reference manual. In this way, the reader will be able to immediately understand what I am talking about.

These notes are for students in science, economics or finance who have followed at least one undergraduate course in financial mathematics and statistics.
Self-taught students or practicioners should have read at least an introductiory books in financial mathematics.

Why is it worth to read these notes ?

First of all, this is not a book!
Every notebook is (almost) independent from the others. Therefore you can select only the notebook you are interested in!

-Every notebook, contains python code ready to use!

It is not easy to find on internet examples of financial models implemented in python which are ready to use and well documented.
I think that beginners in quantitative finance will find these notebooks very useful!

Moreover, Jupyter notebooks are interactive i.e. you can run the code inside the notebook. This is probably the best way to study!

If you open a notebook with Github or NBviewer, sometimes mathematical formulas are not displayed correctly. For this reason, I suggest you to clone / download the repository.

Is this series of notebooks complete?

No!
I will upload more notebooks from time to time.

At the moment, I’m interested in the areas of stochastic processes, Kalman Filter, statistics and much more. I will add more interesting notebooks on these topics in the future.

If you have any kind of questions, or if you find some errors, or you have suggestions for improvements, feel free to contact me.
This is mylinkedinpage.

Contents

1.1)Black-Scholes numerical methodsnbviewer(lognormal distribution, change of measure, Monte Carlo , Binomial method).

1.2)SDE simulation and statisticsnbviewer(paths generation, Confidence intervals, Hypothesys testing, Geometric Brownian motion, Cox-Ingersoll- Ross process, Euler Maruyama method, parameters estimation)

1.3)Fourier inversion methodsnbviewer(derivation of inversion formula, numerical inversion, option pricing)

1.4)SDE, Heston modelnbviewer(correlated Brownian motions, Heston paths, Heston distribution, characteristic function, option pricing)

1.5)SDE, Lévy processesnbviewer(Merton, Variance Gamma, NIG, path generation, parameter estimation)

2.1)The Black-Scholes PDEnbviewer(PDE discretization, Implicit method, sparse matrix tutorial)

2.2)Exotic optionsnbviewer(Binary options, Barrier options)

2.3)American optionsnbviewer(PDE, Binomial method, Longstaff-Schwartz)

3.1)Merton Jump-Diffusion PIDEnbviewer(Implicit-Explicit discretization, discrete convolution, model limitations, Monte Carlo, Fourier inversion, semi-closed formula)

3.2)Variance Gamma PIDEnbviewer(approximated jump-diffusion PIDE, Monte Carlo, Fourier inversion, Comparison with Black-Scholes )

3.3)Normal Inverse Gaussian PIDEnbviewer(approximated jump-diffusion PIDE, Monte Carlo, Fourier inversion, properties of the Lévy measure )

4.1)Pricing with transaction costsnbviewer(Davis-Panas-Zariphopoulou model, singular control problem, HJB variational inequality, indifference pricing , binomial tree, performances)

5.1)Linear regression and Kalman filternbviewer(market data cleaning, Linear regression methods, Kalman filter design, choice of parameters)

A.1)Appendix: Linear equationsnbviewer(LU, Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, SOR, Thomas)

A.2)Appendix: Code optimizationnbviewer(cython, C code)

A.3)Appendix: Review of Lévy processes theorygithub(basic and important definitions, derivation of the pricing PIDE)

How to run the notebooks

You have two options:

    (Install) dockerfollowing the instructions ininstall link

At this point, you just need to run the scriptdocker_start_notebook.pyand you are done. This script will download the data-science docker imagescipy-notebook, that will be used every time you run the script (the script will take about 10 – 15 minutes to download the image, ONLY the first time). You can also download a different image by modifying the script. For a list of images seehere.

  1. Clone the repository and open the notebooks usingjupyter-notebook. If you are using an old version of python there can be compatibility problems.
  2. -Cython code needs to be compiled!

    If you are using the data science image, you can open the shell in the notebooks directory, and run the script

    python docker_start_notebook.py

    after that, copy-paste the following code into the shell:

    docker  (exec)  -it Numeric_Finance bashcdwork / functions / cython python setup.py build_ext --inplaceexit

    ( (Numeric_Finance) is the name of the docker container)

    If you are not using docker, just copy in the shell the following:

    cdfunctions / cython python setup.py build_ext --inplace

    Enjoy!

  

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