I gave a talk at STL Python last week about learning Python from an Excel User point of view. Check out the GitHub repo for slides and examples.
“What really drives stock price is when something is unanticipated,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Earnings season is the time during which publicly-traded companies announce their financial results in the market. It occurs at the end of every quarter, i.e., four times in a…

Assuming Conda and Google Cloud SDK are install, open up command prompt and run following commands:
Just as a refresher: “In 1977, Congress gave the Fed two main tasks: Keep the prices of things Americans buy stable, and create labor-market conditions that provide jobs for all the people who want them. The Fed has developed a toolkit to achieve these dual goals of inflation and maximum employment. But interest-rate changes make…
Just wanted to highlight that I started a Flask Dashboard for the Py-Sec-Edgar package. https://github.com/ryansmccoy/sec-filings-app
As a Research Analyst, I’ve probably read a couple thousand filings from companies over the years. They contain great information about the companies businesses, including revenue sources, descriptions, outlooks, and financial information. My favorite ones to look at are the Annual Reports (Form 10-K for US Based companies, 20-F for Foreign based companies traded in…
One of the difficulties I had with my multi-monitor setup was figuring out how to efficently and effectively managing my work. Over time I’ve been able to hack together a solution that works for me including mouse with alot of buttons, software to manage window location, and other applications. Software Everything – use all day…
I recently upgrade my work PC (previous post) and as a result I had to dig into a few new technologies, one of them being the newer storage interface, NVMe. Below are a few tests using CrystalDiskMark, overall the most recently manufactured SSD NVMe was the fastest (Intel). Samsung 960 EVO Series – 250GB PCIe NVMe…
At some point I’ll add some more info about my setup, until then bullet points will have to do. Computers: (1) AMD/ASUS/64GB (primary software development) – powers monitors 1,2,3,4,5 above use primarily for business, specifically developing software for investment management/financial services companies Note: I can’t figure out how to turn off the LED… (1)…