Before tackling the main subject, two quick notes:I did not post for quite a while in part because I followed the Coursera online course Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.  It was a nice refresher, extremely well pre...

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First an apology, the links to the Universal Portfolio paper have stopped working.  This is because the personal webpage of Thomas Cover at Stanford has been taken down, but fortunately the content moved elsewhere.  The new link is Universal ...

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Part 9 compared the wealth of Universal against other portfolio selection algorithms by using the experimental cumulative distribution function of the relative wealth.  This leads to a very compact representation, but it completely hides the ...

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Part 8 was discussing the distribution of the absolute wealth of the Universal Portfolio across all possible tuples of length 2, 3 and 4.However, comparing the absolute wealth against some reference, especially against simple portfolio selection algor...

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We extend the analysis of part 7 by calculating the final wealth for all tuples of 3 and 4 stocks, this is a simple extension but it also shows the most important problem of the Universal portfolio algorithm, its exponential complexity in the number of...

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After reproducing all original figures and tables from Universal Portfolios, R coupled with modern processors allows to perform some more analysis.First we calculate the final wealth of the universal portfolio for all possible pairs of stocks, and...

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As mentioned in Universal portfolio, part 6, the wealth reported in Table 8.4 of Universal Portfolios could not be reproduced.  An other observation is that the random weight vectors reported in Table 8.4 are shown in descending lex...

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The final table in Universal Portfolios introduces leverage.  It indirectly also shows the dangers of rebalancing on margin, while Kin Ark increases 4.2 times, at 50% margin it goes to nothing.The code below reproduces Table 8.4, again a...

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The first three tables in Universal Portfolios presents the same information in numerical form as some of the plots.  The following code generates all three tables by defining a function then calling it with suitable parameters.  Th...

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The graph for figure 8.4 requires to be somehow careful about correctly lagging the CRP value when calculating the weights.# fig 8.4 of Cover "Universal Portfolios"require(logopt)x <- nyse.cover.1962.1984xik <- xnDays <- d...

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