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Market sentiment

Txs Tools has forecast sales of 500 in January, with an expected increase of 5% per month for the rest of the quarter.

However, this is dependent on the market sentiment. Based on historical trends, the following information has been provided:

  • If the market sentiment drops below 0.6 then the sales will only be realized at an increase of 2% per month.
  • If market sentiment increases above 0.8. then sales are expected to increase by 7%.

This exercise is part of the course

Financial Forecasting in Python

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create the computevariance function
def ____(amount, sentiment):
 if (____ < 0.6):
  res = amount + (amount * ____)
 elif (sentiment > 0.8):
  res = ____ + (____ * 0.07)
 else:
  res = amount + (amount * 0.05)
 return res
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