Building A Probabilistic Risk Estimate Using Monte Carlo Simulations

This tutorial covers the basic steps in using XL Risk (an open source Excel Add In) to run Monte Carlo Simulations to generate a probabilistic risk estimate.
This video is accompanied by a more detailed article on Medium / building-a-probabilist...
Also here is the Github repo that has the xlsx used in the video and instructions on how to install the open source tool XL Risk
github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCar...

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  • @sherwinlouie2191
    @sherwinlouie2191 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Zhijing!! Great explanation

  • @nadalovic567
    @nadalovic5672 жыл бұрын

    Very well explained, clear, useful..thank you!

  • @RenePatrique
    @RenePatrique Жыл бұрын

    Thank you SO much for this video and your guidance !! - 🙏

  • @lanrewajufajimi8879
    @lanrewajufajimi8879 Жыл бұрын

    The Best Explanation I have seen in years, thank you

  • @user-fb7eu4gu2m
    @user-fb7eu4gu2m5 ай бұрын

    great Explanation

  • @bencebalogh3736
    @bencebalogh3736Ай бұрын

    Great guide, thanks a lot!

  • @ulisesoliveross.2615
    @ulisesoliveross.26152 жыл бұрын

    Excelent, and the Open Source tool also

  • @johnenoch945
    @johnenoch9452 жыл бұрын

    great job - thx

  • @XEQUTE
    @XEQUTEАй бұрын

    Came for monte carlo , stayed for an open source tool, XL Risk !

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Ай бұрын

    Check out my sequel video where I walk thru a Python based approach medium.com/analytics-vidhya/building-a-probabilistic-risk-estimate-using-monte-carlo-simulations-with-python-mcerp-7d57e63112fa

  • @5alidSayed
    @5alidSayed4 ай бұрын

    Hey Zhijing, firstly, this is amazing and very helpful. Thanks for the content. It made life easy. One thing I can't get my head around is how the correlation matrix works in understanding those values and attributing them to the elements. I have gone through your links posted for more examples and answers in the comments yet I can't seem to wrap my head around it. How does the risked value lets say in accommodation, understand that there is a correlation of 0.85 between its value and the value of meals. I do not see any link in those tabs. The function reads numbers from a table that do not have the elements linked. I might be super confused, but I've been scratching my head around this a lot. Hope you can help...

  • @Marcosguimaraesdias
    @Marcosguimaraesdias7 ай бұрын

    Zhijing, amazing explanation. Very didatic. Many thanks. If you allow me please inform in the details of the video the link to download your file.

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    7 ай бұрын

    github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCarloSimulation

  • @erikkappelle4519
    @erikkappelle4519 Жыл бұрын

    Hello Zhijing Eu, Thank you for this great video. Only it is not clear to me how you wired the covariance calculations in the example in the spreadsheet (the table is clear, but where and how is it connected in the model?) Can you please specify what formula's you used and in what lines/cells in the spreadsheet and in the results pagina we can find this? That would be really very helpful. Thank you!

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Жыл бұрын

    In the tab Uncertain Range+Events+Corr, there is a matrix in cells G14:I16. This is referenced in the risked ranges in cells I4 to I9 as a ",RiskCorrmat" suffix to the whatever risk distribution is being used. Read the help documentation for more examples github.com/pyscripter/XLRisk/wiki/CorrelatedInputsExample

  • @meryastriyannimery8802
    @meryastriyannimery88025 ай бұрын

    Hello Zhijing Eu, thanks a lot for your video. i try to use monte carlo for QMRA. Is it true if i say graph cummulative distribution describe about variability? I found out about how to make uncertainty with monte carlo, and it said that i need to second-order. But i confused about parameter input that i use in second-order. And i cant find Tornado diagram in my XLRisk. i use 2 parameter input for my output. does it affect the output of the diagram?

  • @opl1443
    @opl1443 Жыл бұрын

    Great explanation thank you. I’m an office for Mac user, can I use this addin with my office Excel 366? Thanks

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Жыл бұрын

    You must be an advanced user I only have Office 365 not 366 🤣. On a more serious note I think XLRisk only works with the excel desktop version (Excel 2010 onwards) but not excel online. github.com/pyscripter/XLRisk

  • @JalanJalanAjah

    @JalanJalanAjah

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CH2CH2CH2 Thank you for sharing the excelRisk ❤️ Do you have link or information for cash flow forecasting using Monte Carlo simulation?

  • @johnhirst7589
    @johnhirst75892 жыл бұрын

    Hey, great video, would you mind releasing this document as a template - i cant seem to get mine to work

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    7 ай бұрын

    github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCarloSimulation

  • @Peebuttsalad
    @Peebuttsalad Жыл бұрын

    When I open the excel and enable the content all of the formulas become invalid for 'Risked Value' cells. Do I need to link it to the XLrisk file? This is whats in the cell "=@'C:\Users\Lenovo\Desktop\Programming\Excel\XLRisk\XLRisk.xlam'!RiskPert(C4,D4,E4)"

  • @roberts8783
    @roberts87838 ай бұрын

    is it possible to download the spreadsheet to see the data there? recognising it would need the addin to operate. thanks

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    8 ай бұрын

    github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCarloSimulation/

  • @seanclarke69
    @seanclarke692 жыл бұрын

    hi, looks like a great tool, I'm doing a university course however I am a complete novice in excel and have not a clue how you make this run have you left info out of your video. Also where do I find your written tutorial.

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    2 жыл бұрын

    github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCarloSimulation/

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    2 жыл бұрын

    medium.com/analytics-vidhya/building-a-probabilistic-risk-estimate-using-monte-carlo-simulations-cf904b1ab503

  • @seanclarke69

    @seanclarke69

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CH2CH2CH2 Thankyou

  • @JalanJalanAjah
    @JalanJalanAjah Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! Really appreciate! 💗 but I have problem, anyone here using Macbook? The RiskPert formula in Excel is not working with the formula shown on the video. Appreciate your comments.

  • @JalanJalanAjah

    @JalanJalanAjah

    11 ай бұрын

    It's working! I am using this Add-ins!😍

  • @zarak8116
    @zarak8116 Жыл бұрын

    Can you make monte carlo for assessing impact and likelihood of risk? Example, they have assed using a heat map; I then simulate how likely that is?

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't quite understand your question. This tool does not assess the likelihood or impact but assumes you know enough about the phenomenon to select an appropriate probability distribution to simulate it's behavior...you can create two variables- one being a binomial on-off representing likelihood and another variable to reflect the impact range and multiply both distributions to get the overall effect. Is that what you meant ? If you have actual observed data you can even build your own custom distributions. Unfortunately you can't do it in XL Risk but commercial packages like Palisade @Risk or Oracle Crystal Ball have this feature

  • @msarn9255
    @msarn9255 Жыл бұрын

    where I will get "RiskPert" functions ? How to calculate Risk Value?

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Жыл бұрын

    XLRisk supports both RiskPert and RiskTriang functions :- github.com/pyscripter/XLRisk/wiki/RiskFunctions

  • @florisdejong1512
    @florisdejong15122 жыл бұрын

    Can you make monte carlo simulations for trading stocks

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not exactly MC simulations but similar concept that uses Geometric Brownian Motion to model share price behavior kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6aBtc-Lhc-vm8Y.html (Spoiler Alert : It doesn't work as well as you'd think)

  • @shiwaninaik3935
    @shiwaninaik39359 ай бұрын

    That was nice explanation. Could we be able to do it using python ? Thanks

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    9 ай бұрын

    You can run Monte Carlo Sims using just Numpy and Scipy. However this can be a a bit tedious to set up so there are a few Python Libraries that simplify this process in terms of providing more choices for sampling methods, managing sub-simulations and summarising the results PyMCSL pymcsl.readthedocs.io/en/latest Monaco monaco.readthedocs.io/en/latest MCerp github.com/tisimst/mcerp There are lots of examples online if you do a general web search. However most tutorials skip a critical element - how to induce rank correlation between the random input variables. Without this, the simulation will assume that all input variables are independent and uncorrelated which is usually not reflective of most modelled phenomenon. Therefore simulation outcomes will end up underestimating the variability due to the Central Limit Theorem statisticsbyjim.com/basics/central-limit-theorem/ However I can recommend this one example that does cover the use of correlated variables using MCerp : towardsdatascience.com/journey-to-monte-carlo-mc-simulations-with-correlated-variables-in-python-1aef84d5742d

  • @shiwaninaik3935

    @shiwaninaik3935

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@CH2CH2CH2Thanks 👍 will definitely go through it

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    9 ай бұрын

    @@shiwaninaik3935 glad I could help. I'm planning to redo this tutorial video using Python instead of XL Risk when I get a bit of time later this year so stay tuned.

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    8 ай бұрын

    @shiwaninaik3935 zhijingeu.medium.com/building-a-probabilistic-risk-estimate-using-monte-carlo-simulations-with-python-mcerp-7d57e63112fa#bb3f

  • @yancaue6071
    @yancaue60715 ай бұрын

    Can you help me with something? I'm getting the following error with corr matrix: "The table (referenced) doesn't have all off-diagonal values between -1 and 1". The thing is that it is, and there is nothing on githup about how to deal with it.

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    5 ай бұрын

    Under the tab Uncertain Range+Events+Corr, there is a table in cells G14:I16 that represents the correlation matrix. Maybe you accidentally changed the values in the non diagonal cells? (H14, I14, G15, I15, G16, H16)

  • @yancaue6071

    @yancaue6071

    5 ай бұрын

    @@CH2CH2CH2 Your is perfect, I'm using another one, the values for the correlation differ from -0,27 to 1 with 19 variables (diagonal all 1), I've tried to change the numbers and reduce the 19 but receive the same message.

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    5 ай бұрын

    Hmmmm... This is tricky. First try to set the non diagonals as zeroes just to see if it still runs and it's not an XLRisk problem. If not then it could be that the correlation matrix is inconsistent. kb.palisade.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=75 Unfortunately unlike commercial software like @Risk or Frontline Solver which have Auto Corr matrix adjustment tools, you might have to find a way to use Python to calc the eigen values... if you know a bit of coding you might be able to apply the method described here to adjust your coefficients community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1078904

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    5 ай бұрын

    Try these stackoverflow.com/questions/10939213/how-can-i-calculate-the-nearest-positive-semi-definite-matrix or stackoverflow.com/questions/43238173/python-convert-matrix-to-positive-semi-definite

  • @MaliVloggeri
    @MaliVloggeri7 ай бұрын

    Hey Zhijing, can you show it again how you linked the correlation matrix with results in I4:I9. I am getting following message when I try to run simulation. "The risk functions have not been properly linked to the correlation matrix".

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    7 ай бұрын

    In the tab Uncertain Range+Events+Corr, there is a matrix in cells G14:I16. This is referenced in the risked ranges in cells I4 to I9 via the ",RiskCorrmat" suffix to the risk distribution being used. Read the help documentation for more examples github.com/pyscripter/XLRisk/wiki/CorrelatedInputsExample

  • @MaliVloggeri

    @MaliVloggeri

    7 ай бұрын

    Tx Zhijing, but you must have done something in addition to RiskCormax in order to enhance the correlation. I see that cells in I4:I9 are named i.e., I5 is "AccomCost" etc... Have you connected it somehow to Corr matrix?

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    7 ай бұрын

    You need to ensure you name the range for the Corr matrix but also specify which variable you are referring to i.e I5 Accom Cost is ", RiskCorrmat($G$14:$I$16,1)" , I6 Meals is ", RiskCorrmat($G$14:$I$16,2)" and I8 Holiday Tours is ", RiskCorrmat($G$14:$I$16,3)"

  • @MaliVloggeri

    @MaliVloggeri

    7 ай бұрын

    Tx, sorted out.

  • @zanexie981
    @zanexie981 Жыл бұрын

    Is it possible to obtain this excel to further analyse how you did it ?

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Жыл бұрын

    github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCarloSimulation/

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    Жыл бұрын

    medium.com/analytics-vidhya/building-a-probabilistic-risk-estimate-using-monte-carlo-simulations-cf904b1ab503

  • @johnsonhung3308
    @johnsonhung330819 күн бұрын

    Can you share the python code related to XLRisk Monte Carlo simulation ?

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    18 күн бұрын

    Did you mean the XLXS file? It's here github.com/ZhijingEu/MonteCarloSimulation

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    18 күн бұрын

    I also have a Python version of the same worked example here : kzread.info/dash/bejne/h32HxcWjg5Stppc.htmlsi=5j9qtmt7P6X17B_E

  • @johnsonhung3308

    @johnsonhung3308

    18 күн бұрын

    @@CH2CH2CH2 Amazing!! Thank you.

  • @johnsonhung3308

    @johnsonhung3308

    18 күн бұрын

    @@CH2CH2CH2 Thank you.

  • @secrethabesha9943
    @secrethabesha99439 ай бұрын

    it is not clear how you connect the correlation matrix to the original ranges

  • @CH2CH2CH2

    @CH2CH2CH2

    9 ай бұрын

    In the tab Uncertain Range+Events+Corr, there is a matrix in cells G14:I16. This is referenced in the risked ranges in cells I4 to I9 as a ",RiskCorrmat" suffix to the whatever risk distribution is being used. Read the help documentation for more examples github.com/pyscripter/XLRisk/wiki/CorrelatedInputsExample

  • @ahsanm.5040
    @ahsanm.50402 ай бұрын

    Hello Zhijing Eu, thanks for your kind effort. Im trying to practice the simulation by watching your video. I've used the same variables and the same values like yours. I've installed the XLRisk correctly. However, my resluts shows no outputs, no graphs but inputs only. Could you please guide me to solve the issue? Thanks in advance.