Python for Finance Cookbook

How to do it...

Execute the following steps to download the stock prices and calculate simple/log returns.

1. Import the libraries:

import pandas as pd import numpy as npimport yfinance as yf

2. Download the data and keep the adjusted close prices only:

df = yf.download('AAPL',                  start='2000-01-01',                  end='2010-12-31',                 progress=False)df = df.loc[:, ['Adj Close']]df.rename(columns={'Adj Close':'adj_close'}, inplace=True)

3. Calculate the simple and log returns using the adjusted close prices:

df['simple_rtn'] = df.adj_close.pct_change()df['log_rtn'] = np.log(df.adj_close/df.adj_close.shift(1))

The resulting DataFrame looks as follows:

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