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How to install Python Packages?

Learn all about installing Python packages and resolving frequent issues which programmers face during package installation with this comprehensive blog. You will learn about Pip install, dir() function and PyPi....
11 min read

Portfolio Analysis: Calculating Risk and Returns, Strategies and More

Portfolio analysis is an important part of the trading journey as the trader needs to analyse the expected risks on expected returns before making the investment decisions. With this informative blog, get to learn all about portfolio analysis and the associated calculations!...
13 min read

Starting with no programming background, Melvin Soon is now an Algo Trader!

Melvin Soon, a chemical engineer with over 5 years of experience pursued the EPAT course to learn algo trading. Read how Melvin’s zeal for learning new concepts and developing his skills has helped him throughout his career....
4 min read

Hyperparameters: Optimization and Tuning for Machine Learning

For training your machine learning model to the best potential, hyperparameters play an important role. But what are the hyperparameters and how to use them for your machine learning models? Learn the nitty-gritty of using hyperparameters for machine learning models....
7 min read

Paper Trading - Trading using virtual money!

How about trading with virtual money and finding out how your strategy performs without fearing the loss of even a single penny? Find out all about paper trading and the top paper trading platforms with this informative blog....
18 min read

Megan’s journey in achieving goals through learning Algo Trading!

A full-time BSc student from UK’s top 100 universities pursuing algorithmic trading, learning Python and other quantitative approaches. This is Megan Lester’s journey....
2 min read

Charles Lenfest Quantra Journey: A Data Scientist who followed his passion for Trading

Enhancing your trading skills with Systematic Options Trading helped churn Chalres’ passion and ambition. This is his journey of learning via self-paced learning courses and achieving his aspiration of systematic trading....
2 min read

Best Quant websites | An unconventional guide

A curated selection of some of the finest websites for Quants! Gain exposure to some of the highly sought Quant Blogs, Portals, Forums, Communities, and Research papers....
8 min read

Applying LightGBM to the Nifty index in Python

LightGBM is an efficient gradient-boosting framework that uses tree-based learning. This blog discusses an improvised version of the algorithm and its use in the Indian stock market....
8 min read

Marketing, Analytics and now Algo Trading | HuanJian Chang’s Journey

HuanJian Chang, a full-time data analyst with 12+ years of work experience and domain knowledge in marketing, is exploring the world of algo trading with EPAT in order to one day set up his own trading desk....
4 min read