pyfinlab 0.0.14

Financial applications for portfolio management

PyFinanceLab

PyFinanceLab is a library which brings together various financial applications into one package for research and portfolio management. PyFinanceLab is in pre-alpha development. Please open an issue if you find any bugs.

Features

• Data Api Wrapper

  The data api wrapper makes it easy to switch between yfinance (free to use) and tia (Bloomberg Professional Service subscription required) libraries for pulling financial data.

Installation

PyFinanceLab comes with many dependencies. It is recommended you use Anaconda for this installation process. Anaconda Individual Edition is appropriate for most users. Make sure you have installed Microsoft C++ Build Tools installed on your computer. If you encounter any errors with, "Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required", try following these instructions to download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0. Open an issue if you need help.

Windows Instructions

Open Anaconda Prompt and create a new environment called pyfinlab.

conda create -n pyfinlab python=3.8

Activate the new pyfinlab environment.

conda activate pyfinlab

Install the following pip packages.

pip install portfoliolab git+https://github.com/PaulMest/tia.git#egg=tia yfinance tqdm pyfinlab

Install the following conda packages.

conda install -c conda-forge blpapi jupyterlab

Check to see if you can import pyfinlab modules. Your python interpreter should look like the following if the modules were successfully installed. If you get an error, please open an issue.

python
>>> import portfoliolab, tia, blpapi, yfinance, tqdm, pyfinlab
>>> 

Roadmap

Future development will include:

• Classification Schema

  Classify an investment universe of tickers into specified categories such as sector, size, or value.

• Constraints Modeling

  Automatically generate weight constraints for a universe of tickers.

• Risk Modeling

  Sample, test, and select the best risk model for generating covariance matrices for input into portfolio optimizers such as mean-variance optimization (MVO). Examples include empirical covariance, ledoit-wolf shrinkage, minimum covariance determinant, and more.

• Portfolio Optimization

  Utilize the classification schema, constraints modeling, risk modeling, and return modeling to optimize a portfolio of assets.

• Portfolio Backtesting

  Backtest portfolios and generate performance graphical plots and statistics.

• Report Generation

  Report results in a nicely formatted and easily readable Excel file.

• Documentation

  Documentation will be published as this Python library is further developed.