Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 03 May 2019 in Software Development • Tagged with database, mongodb • 3 min read
Recently after looking for a different flavour of database apart from MySQL (which is what I am personally use to), I had always heard about MongoDB. So after some investigation, I found that MongoDB has a platform MongoDB University to familiarize yourself with their product.
I completed their very first …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 26 April 2019 in Python • Tagged with python, data, analysis • 5 min read
Following last 2 weeks’ posts (Python for the Finance Industry & Portfolio Balancing with Historical Stock Data), we now know how to extract historical records on stock information from the ASX through an API, present it in a graph using matplotlib, and how to balance a portfolio using randomly generated portfolios …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 19 April 2019 in Python • Tagged with finance, python • 4 min read
Following last weeks' post (Python for the Finance Industry). This post is to demonstrate a method of determining an optimized portfolio based on historical stock price data.
First of all while attempting to tackle this problem, I stumbled across many very informative articles in which based on what I learned …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 12 April 2019 in Python • Tagged with python, finance • 3 min read
This is the first post in a series of posts dedicated for demonstrating how Python can be applied in the finance industry. Personally, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the finance industry is the stock market. For fellow Australians, our main stock exchange is the …