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Finance Tutorials for Python or Matlab
Cole Mooney
posted May 19, 2014

Hi,

I'm a grad student studying spatial statistics. I have a background in geology and the mining industry in general. One interest of mine has always been trading and finance in general.

As a result of grad school, I'm becoming fairly good at programming in both Matlab and Fortran. I also have some familiarity with Python. I would like to use this opportunity to start learning how to do some basic financial engineering with either Python or Matlab.

Could someone link to some good, free tutorials that cover the basics? I'd like to learn how to download and manage financial datasets, fit statistical models then use those models to predict. I'd also like to learn how to back test my models.

Where would be a good place to start?

Cole

1 response
Deleted User
May 20, 2014

Hey Cole,

Welcome to Quantopian! Similar questions have been answered in questions here, here, and here. Coursera has great resources in stats, CS, and finance also. You may want to learn my coding up some of the models that have been developed on Quantopian, and extending them. I am sure some of your knowledge of statistics will be useful in quantitative investment research.

Best,
Ryan

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