Practical C# and WPF for Financial Markets: Advanced C#, WPF, and MVVM Programming for Quant Developers/Analysts and Individual Traders - Softcover

Xu, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979372550 ISBN 13: 9780979372551

Publisher: Ji-Hai Xu, 2016

Synopsis

Practical C# and WPF for Financial Markets provides a complete explanation of .NET programming in quantitative finance. It demonstrates how to implement quant models and backtest trading strategies. It pays special attention to creating business applications and reusable C# libraries that can be directly used to solve real-world problems in quantitative finance. The book contains:
•  Overview of C#, WPF programming, data binding, and MVVM pattern, which is necessary to create MVVM compatible .NET financial applications.
•  Step-by-step approaches to create a variety of MVVM compatible 2D/3D charts, stock charts, and technical indicators using my own chart package and Microsoft chart control.
•  Introduction to free market data retrieval from online data sources using .NET interfaces. These data include EOD, real-time intraday, interest rate, foreign exchange rate, and option chain data.
•  Detailed procedures to price equity options and fixed-income instruments, including European/American/Barrier options, bonds, and CDS, as well as discussions on related topics such as cash flows, term structures, yield curves, discount factors, and zero-coupon bonds.
•  Introduction to linear analysis, time series analysis, and machine learning in finance, which covers linear regression, PCA, SVM, and neural networks.
•  In-depth descriptions of trading strategy development and backtesting, including strategies for single stock trading, stock pairs trading, and trading for multi-asset portfolios.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ji-Hai Xu
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979372550
• ISBN 13: 9780979372551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 618