Since the d3 portion of the example provide in my last post d3 and r interacting through shiny was so weak, I thought it would be interesting to combine the much more compelling Showreel Example with the same stock data.  However, this time the da...

I was amazed and delighted by the Reconstruct Gene Networks Using Shiny.  Jeff accomplished what I knew was possible but had absolutely no idea how to implement.  With the boost, I went to work combining his d3 force layout with my d3 experim...

For a happy person delightfully concentrated in Apple, I wanted to show Apple’s performance versus Microsoft and Cisco in decades 1(1990-2000) and 2 (2000-2012).  I thought this would give me a good chance to try out the very interesting work be...

This caught my eye as I searched for some more academic research on my favorite risk measure drawdown. Yang, Z. George and Zhong, Liang,Optimal Portfolio Strategy to Control Maximum Drawdown - The Case of Risk Based Dynamic Asset Allocation (February ...

Life keeps getting better and better.  Yesterday, I discovered the absolutely unbelievable and amazing work RStudio has done with Shiny employing one of my favorite R packages websockets.  As proof of the ease and quality, within a couple of ...

Tom Brakke from http://researchpuzzle.com/ wrote a great thought piece Cash as Trash, Cash as King, and Cash as a Weapon for the CFA Institute blog.  My favorite part comes in the last paragraph: “That’s the kind of analysis that should be br...

As the Yen and Japan continue to get more interesting in my mind, I just wanted to resurrect some posts that I have done on Japan and the Yen and sort them by my favorites. Japan Trade by Geographic RegionJapanese Trade and the YenJapan Intentional or...

The Ministry of Finance Japan very generously provides data on JGBs back to 1974.  Here is a quick example how to pull it into R and then graph it. From TimelyPortfolio R code in GIST (do raw for copy/paste):

Although I have used the Kenneth French data library extensively in various posts, I have not yet used the international data sets paired with the wonderful paper. Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French (2012) "Size, Value, and Momentum in International...

When I ask the question “What if the US 10 year goes to 0?", most do not know the effect, the catalyst, or if 0 has ever happened before.  The math is fairly simple to do in Excel or with an old-school calculator, but let’s use RQuantLib to do...

Extending the series begun with When Russell 2000 is Low Vol, I thought I should take a look at Emerging Market stocks during periods of low relative volatility to the S&P 500.  So you can replicate even without access to expensive data, let

Continuing in my exploration of the Russell 2000 (Russell 2000 Softail Fat Boy), I thought I would try to approach the topic with a low volatility paradox mindset.  Since 2005, beta of the Russell 2000 compared to the S&P 500 has exceeded 1.2 ...

I very much enjoy papers such as Antonacci, Gary, Risk Premia Harvesting Through Momentum (September 5, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2042750 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2042750 Faber, Mebane T., A Quantitative Approach to T...

Almost always, when I see a system backtested, the backtest assumes a static portfolio with no contributions or withdrawals.  This assumption only covers an extremely limited subset of my clients.  Cash flows in and out of a portfolio or syst...

If the Russell 2000 were a motorcycle, maybe it should be a Harley-Davidson Softail Fat Boy.  I have explored the exception case of the Russell 2000 in quite a few posts More Exploration of Crazy RUT Where are the Fat Tails? Crazy RUT but I st...

Tradeblotter announced the very nice features that will be added to the PerformanceAnalytics package as a result of the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2012 project: “…Matthieu commenced to produce dozens of new functions, extend several more existin...

SocialDataBlog’s kind reference in post Horizon plots with ggplot (not) motivated me to finish what the post started.  I knew that ggplot2 would be a little more difficult to use for the purpose of a horizon plot, but I felt compelled to provide...

Mebane Faber’s post Buffett’s Alpha points out Warren Buffett’s 0.76 Sharpe Ratio discussed in the similarly title paper Buffet’s Alpha.  I of course immediately think about the 8th Wonder of the World – the US Bond Market, whose Sharpe ...

(for all plot.xts posts, see http://timelyportfolio.blogspot.com/search/label/plot.xts) As another example of all that we can do with the new plot.xts, let’s try to do a price plot with a moving average overlays.  We will use the ETFs shown by M...

I’m clearly out of my realm of competence with most of the rugarch functions, but I thought it might be nice to provide an example combining plot.xts and uGARCHroll. R code from GIST: