SoloQuant Academy

Short evening lessons for people who work. Quant trading, Python, data, systems, architecture.

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Matplotlib vs Plotly for trading charts after work: pick by job

Static audit plots vs interactive exploration for trading charts. Educational only. Not investment advice.

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Gradio ML demo after work: wrap a toy sklearn predictor in a local UI. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Plotly Python finance charts after work: interactive closes and OHLC without dashboard drama. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Streamlit finance dashboard after work: one selectbox and one line chart on toy prices. Educational only. Not investment advice.

VS Code Python data science setup after work: interpreter picker, Jupyter, and format-on-save. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Jupyter for quant research after work: Restart & Run All, cell hygiene, and honest exports. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Anthropic Claude API for coding after work: review a diff; you still own the merge. Educational only. Not investment advice.

OpenAI API for finance workflows after work: summarize and extract JSON from public text only. Educational only. Not investment advice.

LlamaIndex RAG after work: index one folder of markdown and cite retrieved chunks. Educational only. Not investment advice.

vLLM for beginners after work: mental model for serving one small instruct model locally. Educational only. Not investment advice.

LangChain for financial research after work: one read-only retrieve→reason chain over your notes. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Sentence Transformers after work: embed a few lines and rank neighbors by cosine similarity. Educational only. Not investment advice.