CV Questions Flashcards
Explain your Equal Weighted Standard&Poor Fund
Created a script that accepts a user input value for your portfolio size and creates an equal weighted excel spreadsheet of which funds you should buy.
It used the IEX Cloud api to add the data for the 500 tickers to a pandas data frame and looped through the data frame to calculate how many shares one should buy of each. wrote the results to an excel file.
improved the project by learning about batch api calls
Explain your project on momentum investing
1) Started with the same importing of the Csv list using the Pandas. read_csv method
2) Created chunks function to yield n sized groups from list length l
3) Executed a batch api call and looped through the batches to add the tickers and relevant information
4) Sorted data array using sort_values method for 1 year price return and removed all but first 50.
5) Improved by learning about high/low quality momentum stocks. (slow and steady increase is good). Used stats percentile method and averaged over 1m, 3m, 6m, 12m.
