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Fetching AAPL Dividends with Python: Scraping vs Using APIs

Blog • api, apple, dividends, finance, python, scrapping, yfinance

Introduction Developers and finance enthusiasts often need to retrieve stock data programmatically for analysis or trading. Rather than manually copying values, we can automate data retrieval with code. Two common approaches are web scraping and using an official API. Web scraping means fetching and parsing an HTML page, while APIs provide a structured data feed. […]

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How to use AI to fetch S&P500 P/Es by Sector

Blog • ai, finance, health, price, python, real estate, sector, sp500, yfinance

Everyone is using AI nowadays for different purposes. It can also leverage your code building capabilities, specially for finance! In this post, we will go over a project to fetch the price per earnings for all of the companies from the S&P 500. We will also divide them by sector and have interesting insights on

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How to Calculate Beta from Scratch using Python

Blog • beta, daily returns, finance, nvidia, python, returns, stocks, yfinance

Beta is one of the most widely used metrics in the investment world, especially for those who follow the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). But what exactly is beta, and how can you calculate it yourself? Let’s break it down! In this post, we’ll explain what beta is, why it’s important, how to calculate it,

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Bitcoin Halving: How to Analyze Trends

Blog • bitcoin, finance, halving, python

Bitcoin has soared to an all-time high, surpassing previous records and capturing the attention of investors worldwide. Several factors contribute to this historic milestone: Speaking of halving, this event occurs approximately every four years and entails a 50% reduction in the rate at which new Bitcoins are created. The most recent halving took place in

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Compound Interest from Scratch using Python

Blog • compound interest, finance, growth investment, inflation, python, simple interest

In this post, we will explore one of the core concepts of finance that will drastically increase your gains over time — the famous snowball effect: Compound Interest. What is it? Compound interest is the concept of earning interest not only on your initial investment (principal) but also on the interest accumulating over time. Unlike

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1 – Building a Portfolio Manager with Python: First steps

Series & Projects • finance, json, portolio manager, project, python

This post is the first of a series of posts in which we will start from scratch and build a portfolio management tool using Python. The full capabilities of this tool will still be discovered as we build it. However, at the very least, we will make it possible for the user to register the

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