Learn to analyse and backtest financial market data using Excel and Python. Understand the difference between both tools and their respective pros and cons. Know which one is best suited for you. ----------------------------------------- Complete Webinar Recording https://blog.quantinsti.com/stock-data-analysis-excel-python-23-february-2021/ ----------------------------------------- Key Takeaways - Steps involved in backtesting a strategy - Demo of backtesting using Excel - Why Excel and what does it enable us to do? - Where does Excel fall short? - How to overcome it? - Demo of backtesting on multiple stocks ----------------------------------------- About the Speaker Jay Parmar (Associate, Content & Research at QuantInsti) Jay Parmar works as an Associate, Content & Research at QI and comes with several years of experience in the BFSI industry. He is actively engaged in content development for quant finance courses and mentors EPAT participants across the globe. He is passionate about algo trading and programming and enjoys developing automated trading systems. He holds a Bachelors’ in Computer Science and the EPAT Certificate. His research interests are in applying machine learning models to various facets of trading. ----------------------------------------- About EPAT https://goo.gl/3Oyf2B ----------------------------------------- This event was held on: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:30 AM ET | 7:00 PM IST | 9:30 PM SGT ----------------------------------------- Most useful links: Join EPAT – Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading: https://goo.gl/3Oyf2B Visit us at: https://www.quantinsti.com/ ----------------------------------------- Link to our Blog: https://blog.quantinsti.com/ Like us on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/quantinsti/ Follow us on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/QuantInsti Follow us on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/school/quantinsti/ Follow us on Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/quantinstian/ E-mail us @ sales@quantinsti.com

1. Jay Parmar
Stock Data Analysis: Excel vs Python

2. Stock Analysis
Different Kinds of Analysis
● Analysing the distribution of a stock returns
● Deriving a stock beta
● Determining correlations between two or more stocks
● Calculating rate of change
● Backtesting a strategy
● and so on...

3. Conventional Steps
Backtesting a Strategy
● Fetch stock data
● Compute buy and hold returns
● Create rules
● Generate trading signals
● Compute strategy returns

4. Why Excel?
Reasons
● Used across the industry
● Has comparatively smoother learning curve
● Handy tool to test your hypotheses

5. Excel Demo

6. Where Does Excel Fall Short?
Common Constraints
● Cannot handle large and unstructured data
● Gets slower as the size of the data increases
● Difficult to backtest a strategy on multiple stocks
● Difficult to optimize a strategy with more than two variables
● Difficult to backtest strategies involving advanced techniques like machine learning or neural networks

7. How to Overcome Shortfalls?
Enter the world of programming
● Python to the rescue
Why?
● It is faster compared to Excel
● Handles large datasets easily
● Can be used for backtesting as well as live-trading
● Various packages available to handle unstructured data
● Can use the same code for multiple stocks
● Supports advanced statistical tasks such as time-series analysis, deep neural networks and so on

8. Python Demo

9. Q&A

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