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Where finance practitioners get started with Python for quant finance, algorithmic trading, and data analysis | Tweets & threads with free Python code & tools.
- A Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000 per year. It's the portal to all the world's financial data. Unaffordable for 99% of us. Reserved for the Wall Street elite to outfox the normal investor. Until now:
- My PhD professors taught me MATLAB during my master's degree. So I watched 200 YouTube videos to learn Python 96% of them were a complete waste of time. But these 8 taught me more than all my PhD professors combined:
- My master's degree completely failed to teach me Python for quant finance (they taught me MATLAB). So I watched 200 YouTube videos. And the truth is, 96% of them were a complete waste of time. But these 8 taught me more than all my PhD professors combined:
- Myth: You need a computer science degree to get started with Python. Reality: You need YouTube. Get started with these 7 channels:
- College completely failed to teach me data analysis. So I spent over 10,000 hours learning Python. Then, I picked the 13 best libraries for machine learning and data analysis. But unlike college, these won't cost you $120,000. Here they are for free:
- A Bloomberg Terminal costs $27,660 per year (raising to $30,000 in 2023). It's the portal to all the world's financial data. Reserved for the Wall Street elite to outfox the normal investor. Unaffordable for 99.9% of us. Until now:
- I'm 43. If you're still in your 20s (or 30s), read this:
- I'm 43. If you're still in your 20s or 30s, read this:
- Over the past 10 years, I've watched over 250 YouTube videos on quantitative finance. And the truth is, 99% of them were a complete waste of time. But these 8 are worth more than a 4-year degree:
- Skip the quant finance degree. Dive into 17 code repos that will teach you more than all your professors at school. All without costing you $90,000:
