This is the first post in the series about Asset Allocation, Risk Measures, and Portfolio Construction. I will use simple and naive historical input assumptions for illustration purposes across all posts. In these series I plan to discuss: Maximum Loss, MAD, CVaR, CDaR, Omega Risk Measures 130:30 Long/Short portfolios and ... [Read more...]

Today I want to discuss a connection between Risk, Return and Analyst Ratings. Let’s start with defining our universe of stocks : 30 stocks from Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) index. For each stock I will compute the number of Upgrades and Downgrades, Risk, and Return in 2010:2011. I will run a ... [Read more...]

plot.table function in the Systematic Investor Toolbox is a flexible table drawing routine. plot.table has a simple interface and takes following parameters: plot.matrix – matrix with data you want to plot smain – text to draw in (top, left) cell; default value is blank string highlight – Either TRUE/FALSE ... [Read more...]

PloTA ( plot + ta ) library in the Systematic Investor Toolbox is a simple plot interface to charting Time Series and Technical Analysis plots. I created it as an alternative to charting functionality in quantmod package. It is designed to mimic default plot interface and works with xts objects. PloTA implements following ... [Read more...]