NumPy arrays, broadcasting, and vectorized math for speed

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The concept in plain words A Python list is flexible but slow for numeric work: looping over a million price ticks in pure Python to compute returns takes seconds you don't have when a trading job runs every minute. NumPy fixes this with the array — a fixed-type, contiguous block of memory that lets Python hand off the loop to……

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