Preface

This book is a growing library of articles of preliminary basic concepts and skills that are essential to be mastered by a qualified “quant”, who implements mathematical asset pricing models in programming languages like Python to quantitatively make decisions on security investment. The book aims to be used as a collection of lecture notes, textbook, or reference manual for any potential quantitative trader.

The book is the result of a collaborative effort of Dr. Qiang Gao and his friends or students. Comments, corrections, contributions are warmly welcomed. Anyone who contributed to this book will be acknowledged in the Credits section.

Copyright ©2017 by Qiang Gao