bond-calculator

Computes bond YTM, price, duration, or convexity. Run from a Command Line Interface (CLI).

Installation

Installation is simply downloading the code from GitHub. Enter the following at a terminal prompt to install in your home directory:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/shreysrins/bond-calculator.git

Dependencies

This code was developed and tested in Python 3.7. You can check your version of Python with the following terminal command:

$ python3 --version

Install all dependencies by opening a terminal and running:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• pyfiglet >= 0.8.post1 (pip3 install pyfiglet)
• NumPy ~= v1.19.4 (pip3 install numpy)
• SciPy ~= v1.6.2 (pip3 install scipy)

Usage

Open a terminal and navigate to the directory in which this repository is stored. If you installed in your home directory, this is done with:

$ cd ~/bond-calculator/

The command to run the calculator is:

$ python3 bond_calc.py

All instructions and prompts are given in the terminal itself.

Updating

To check for and install updates: open a terminal, navigate to the directory in which this repository is stored, and run the git pull command. If you installed in your home directory, this is done with:

$ cd ~/bond-calculator/
$ git status
$ git pull