xQuant

Code written for xQuant.com and financial studies during Dec. 2015 - Jan. 2016.
Main project see https://github.com/scottjzou/WebCalcAPI. Others don't quite matter, more of a progress record. Thanks for reading.
### Files

Details of each project should be seen in their respective README.

2.7 is for projects under python2.7 environment, which consists of:

* core.py: an attempt to extract specific financial related tables from pdf. This project is paused and passed over to Patrick Chen.

* django-calculator-microservice & django-ladon: both are forms of web-services that designed to handle requests, calculations and responses. They are cloned from https://github.com/jhonjairoroa87/django-calculator-microservice/ and https://github.com/TargetHolding/django-ladon respectively. I did some minor editing to learn how those tools work.

* xQuantWebCalculator: this is the main tool that I wrote for the web service tool my supervisor requested.



### Installations

#### VIRTUALENV
This repository consists of two python environments, one uses python2.7, the other uses python3.5. This was created by building virtural environments with [pyenv and virtualenv](http://amaral-lab.org/resources/guides/pyenv-tutorial), you can set up environments through the tutorial, and use
```
	pyenv local your_environment
```
to make sure everytime you enter the folder, such virtual environoment will be activated.

#### PIP installations.

In case you are missing other libarires, run pip (maybe pip install -r requirements.txt if it was kept clean enough) in the respective project folder to install necessary libraries. For details, read the README files in each directory.

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### After Thoughts

 **Recommend installing [Anaconda](https://www.continuum.io/downloads)**, as it contains a lot of resources to run the programs in this repository. It also serves as a virtual environment tool that can replace pyenv.

SEE THIS FOR MORE [DETAILS](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34398676/does-conda-replace-the-need-for-virtualenv)

Also even the above practice of pip with python2.7 and python3.5 was later found to be sub-optimal for financial purposes, as pyenv does provide an anaconda version of python to be installed directly. What should be done is 
```
pyenv install anaconda3-2.4.0
pyenv virtualenv anaconda3-2.4.0 your_environment
pyenv local your_environment
```
However, the above method was untested, and only therotically working.

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