lightquant 0.1.5

A lightweight Python library for python utilities for holidays, dates, options and other tools

lightquant

lightquant is a lightweight Python library providing utilities for working with holidays, dates, options, and other trading-related tools. It is designed to simplify common tasks in quantitative finance and trading workflows.

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Features

• Date Utilities: Simplify date and time operations.
• Options Pricing: Tools for European options calculations.
• Trading Interactions: functions for assisting web scraping, reading and writing R files
• Commission Calculations: Retrieve and calculate trading commissions based on dates and configurations.
• Config Management: Centralized configuration management using YAML files.

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Installation

Install the package using pip:

pip install lightquant

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Usage

Import the Library

import lightquant

Check the Version

print(lightquant.__version__)

Initialize Configuration

from lightquant import initialize_config, get_config

# Initialize configuration with the default config path
initialize_config("path/to/config.yaml")

# Access configuration values
config = get_config()
timezone = config.get("tz")
print(f"Timezone: {timezone}")

Logging Configuration

from lightquant import configure_logging

# Configure logging
configure_logging(level=logging.INFO, enable_console=True)

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

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Links

• Homepage: GitHub Repository
• PyPI: LightQuant on PyPI