Free Python books: My Top Picks
One of the most beautiful aspects of learning how to code is that most of the learning resources needed are available for free. Here I share my top picks amo...
The personal website and blog of Stefano Basurto — where data crunching meets code munching. A space for data deep-dives, coding adventures, and musings on tech, finance, and beyond.
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The Tale of the Cat and the Bat
Three handy CLI tools for Linux and macOS: bat, tldr and neofetch As a Linux and macOs command line interface user, I just came across three simple tools tha...
Python Trading Toolbox: A gentle introduction to backtesting
We started this series by introducing some indicators based on price. Our goal is to use indicators, along with price and volume, to make investment decision...
Python Trading Toolbox: step up your charts with indicator subplots
After a several months-long hiatus, I can finally resume posting to the Trading Toolbox Series. We started this series by learning how to plot indicators (sp...
Python Trading Toolbox: introducing OHLC charts with Matplotlib
In the first two posts of the Financial Trading Toolbox Series, we started exploring how to compute some basic indicators based on price (simple moving avera...
Matplotlib OHLC and Candlestick Charts Get a Revamp
Matplotlib enables Python users to create beautiful and publication quality data visualizations. However, the capability to create OHLC and candlestick chart...
Python Trading Toolbox: Weighted and Exponential Moving Averages
In the first article of the Financial Trading Toolbox series (Building a Financial Trading Toolbox in Python: Simple Moving Average), we discussed how to cal...
Building a Financial Trading Toolbox in Python: Simple Moving Average
Python, with its powerful data analysis package pandas, has taken the financial markets analysis world by storm. It enables researchers to perform sophistica...