Monte Carlo Simulation of a Stock Portfolio with Python

What is Monte Carlo Simulation? In this video we use the Monte Carlo Method in python to simulate a stock portfolio value over time.
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  • @sergiopadronarellano5437
    @sergiopadronarellano543729 күн бұрын

    Direct and quick!!! Excellent!

  • @youssefouazzanichahdi2355
    @youssefouazzanichahdi23553 жыл бұрын

    Great video ! Thank you for your efforts, really helpful

  • @thetagang6854
    @thetagang6854 Жыл бұрын

    Best video on the internet on financial monte carlo simulation with python

  • @linghaoyi
    @linghaoyi Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your excellent tutorials. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  • @deAraujoAndre
    @deAraujoAndre2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing work! Thank you for sharing!

  • @user-bk1wt8tt3f
    @user-bk1wt8tt3f3 ай бұрын

    nicely done, straight to the point

  • @minkowski4d
    @minkowski4d2 жыл бұрын

    Great video. You may directly create a multivariate distribution. And it’s always better to use e.g. a Student t Distribution with EWMA in order to estimate the covariance matrix. Otherwise you’re model is going to produce too many overshoots

  • @FranklinNana
    @FranklinNana2 жыл бұрын

    Great Video ! These are really really helpful

  • @chilliking3424
    @chilliking34242 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff! thanks for sharing!

  • @AkashChauhan-rw1qh
    @AkashChauhan-rw1qh3 жыл бұрын

    Great video thank you so much for sharing with us.......... Could you please create a video on stress testing also while using MC + (VaR, ES)

  • @LuanNguyen-pl2wf
    @LuanNguyen-pl2wf2 жыл бұрын

    very neat, thank you for the video !

  • @zehtre4716
    @zehtre47162 жыл бұрын

    really good video. question: could you calculate the historical variance of the portfolio and use that instead of the L matrix? something like portfolio_returns_t = portfolio_std*Z_t

  • @maximfilev2982
    @maximfilev2982 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video! How did you do the animation of mc in the beginning of the video? Sorry, if it is an easy question, I'm newbie in programming

  • @idhaslil920
    @idhaslil9202 жыл бұрын

    Keep on the good stuff mate :)

  • @NarendraHegade
    @NarendraHegade2 жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @edwinkwok70
    @edwinkwok702 жыл бұрын

    Very useful video, are we assuming the randomness follows a geometric brownian motion ?

  • @tteejayyful
    @tteejayyful3 жыл бұрын

    Great video! It'd be interesting to see how you'd translate this into a back-testable strategy as well

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Definitely only a simplified model - assuming returns are normally distributed. However a good back-test is to always be checking covariance parameters are aligned to current market conditions

  • @johannesporphyrius5739

    @johannesporphyrius5739

    11 ай бұрын

    @@QuantPy Yeah, a backtesting video, if possible, would be assume. Thanks for your great work anyway (-:

  • @minkowski4d

    @minkowski4d

    6 ай бұрын

    dePrado Deflated Sharpe Ratio and other Sharpe Ratio concepts.

  • @johndavis8646
    @johndavis86462 жыл бұрын

    turn the background music down please next time, very distracting

  • @mahasleman5755
    @mahasleman57552 жыл бұрын

    Thank you ,

  • @frodewilkensen
    @frodewilkensen Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Is there a quick adjustment for me to replicate this code but only for a single security with a specified estimate on volatility?

  • @mehrankhoshnood1997
    @mehrankhoshnood19972 жыл бұрын

    hi thanks for impressive video. I am majoring in finance and i cant come up with research topic regarding portfolio optimization. can you help me with this issue? any recommendation from you can be really instructive

  • @FRANKWHITE1996
    @FRANKWHITE19963 жыл бұрын

    thanks!

  • @arshsadh7332
    @arshsadh7332 Жыл бұрын

    Great explanation for Monte Carlo simulation. I was trying it out for a single stock but on my code it is showing : ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas_datareader' How can i rectify this? I downloaded pandas, numpy and matplotlib on the terminal but it's still not working.

  • @Kakben
    @Kakben2 жыл бұрын

    Nice video with clear sound and good visuals. I'm not sure it's for you, but how would you feel about improving the algorithm by moving the Cholesky calculation out of the loop? It only needs to be calculated once, right?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great suggestion. Yes the lower triangular matrix for the cholesky composition can be moved above and out of the loop.

  • @flyingsalmon
    @flyingsalmon8 ай бұрын

    Cool video and walk-through. However, how do I make sense of the cool line chart with all simulation paths? The portfolio values in 100 days can be 4000 or 19000 for example. What is the chart telling me in terms of insights? Or would a histogram be more appropriate where we can at least see the buckets and frequency?

  • @SirHiss17

    @SirHiss17

    4 ай бұрын

    Histogram would be more appropriate

  • @vegasruan6640
    @vegasruan6640 Жыл бұрын

    Could you kindly explain if this process consider rebalancing the portfolio?

  • @TheOmnipotentDude
    @TheOmnipotentDude Жыл бұрын

    Could you explain what changes would be need to be made if my time series is monthly instead of daily?

  • @gustavofelicidade_
    @gustavofelicidade_ Жыл бұрын

    You are awesome

  • @superuser8636
    @superuser863611 ай бұрын

    When inserting a matrix/vector of zeroes you can use np.zeros()

  • @matthewwiles2996
    @matthewwiles29962 жыл бұрын

    If I wanted this in a fan chart showing confidence intervals what would I do.

  • @0xsuperman
    @0xsuperman8 ай бұрын

    How do you memorize all your code?

  • @kachunpang7543
    @kachunpang75432 күн бұрын

    Hi PyQuant! May I know is it possible to simulate stock prices using the same technique? In this video you assume the returns follows multivariate normal distribution and then do the Monte Carlo simulation for returns. I am wondering if I can do the same thing for stock prices by assuming certain distribution such as GBM?

  • @raining1975
    @raining19754 ай бұрын

    I am trying to create a retirement calculator for myself and one thing I would like to do is compare Roth Vs Traditional but for example with Roth IRA vs Trad IRA, you can't compare 6500 Roth vs 6500 Trad, you have to compare 6500 Roth vs 6500 Trad + Investing the difference into a brokerage ($6500 Roth vs $6500 Trad + $X in brokerage). I can kind of figuring out what X is by calculating take home with 6500 Trad and subtracting what the take home is for 6500 Roth, the problem is that most index funds have a dividend component. That doesn't matter in an IRA but that $X that would be in a brokerage would have you paying taxes on those dividends which would mess up the calculations. I would need to figure out what the taxes are on those dividends to make it so that the usable income is identical in both examples that I am comparing. I can figure out the taxes for LTCG on qualified dividends but I am not sure how to calculate how much of a dividend you get over time. Do you know of any good videos or articles on anything related to calculating dividends in python?

  • @riadalhasanabir6716
    @riadalhasanabir6716 Жыл бұрын

    I am running your code in Jupiter Notebook. However, when I am running this line "meanReturns, covMatrix = get_data(stocks[0], startDate, endDate)", it gives me an error saying "TypeError: string indices must be integers." Can you suggest me how to solve this problem?

  • @Roman-bn9qv

    @Roman-bn9qv

    Жыл бұрын

    i have the same problem... can you solve??

  • @MicheleCedolin

    @MicheleCedolin

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you solve it ?

  • @yashprajapati70

    @yashprajapati70

    Жыл бұрын

    getting the same error, can someone help me out?

  • @yashprajapati70

    @yashprajapati70

    Жыл бұрын

    import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import datetime as dt from pandas_datareader import data as pdr import yfinance as yf yf.pdr_override() use this code

  • @yashprajapati70

    @yashprajapati70

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MicheleCedolin import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import datetime as dt from pandas_datareader import data as pdr import yfinance as yf yf.pdr_override() use this

  • @stickle1727
    @stickle1727 Жыл бұрын

    How is the Monte carlo method different to the ARIMA and LSTM models?

  • @yashsharma7243
    @yashsharma72433 ай бұрын

    What is the maximum no of simulations which we can run and does it depend on computing power?

  • @chriss4396
    @chriss4396 Жыл бұрын

    What number is typically used as pseudo-random numerical generator in portfolio theory of Monte Carlo?

  • @williamdhudson
    @williamdhudson2 жыл бұрын

    Great video! With the function to create random weights for the portfolio, is there a way to alter it to make minimum weights? Also, what if I want to run a Monte Carlo on a portfolio where I already know the weights and don't want to generate random weights?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please note that I’m not optimising the weights of this portfolio. I’m just assigning random weights once. You can replace that line with you individual weights in a list / numpy array.👍

  • @jeromeordona7549

    @jeromeordona7549

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you want to specify your weights, you could make an array that has the same length as the number of stocks but just manually enter the weights. Just make sure the weights add up to 1. IE: weights=[.2, .2, .2, .1, .1, .2]

  • @saheedfalola3033
    @saheedfalola30332 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing. I have a question: do you need to connect to Bloomberg (or any other terminal) for this code to run? I am getting the following error message : print(meanReturns) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in print(meanReturns) NameError: name 'meanReturns' is not defined

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Definitely not 👍 I can see here you are trying to print meanReturns (in line 1) without having defined it? Make sure you call the getData function and declare meanReturns variable.

  • @saheedfalola3033

    @saheedfalola3033

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@QuantPy Thanks a lot. I am a bit stocked again. def get_data(stocks, start, end): stockData=pdr.get_data_yahoo(stocks, start, end) StockData=StockData['Close'] returns=stockData.pct_change() meanReturns=returns.mean() covMatrix=returns.cov() return meanReturns, covMatrix stockList=['CBA', 'BHP','TLS','NAB','WBC','STO'] stocks=[stock + '.AX'for stock in stockList] endDate=dt.datetime.now() startDate=endDate-dt.timedelta(days=300) meanReturns,covMatrix = get_data(stocks,startDate,endDate) print(meanReturns) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 14, in meanReturns,covMatrix = get_data(stocks,startDate,endDate) File "", line 3, in get_data StockData=StockData['Close'] UnboundLocalError: local variable 'StockData' referenced before assignment It is now saying "local variable 'StockData' referenced before assignment " - not sure what I am getting wrong

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’ve typed stockData=stockData[‘Close’] incorrectly, you placed a capital letter on StockData. Python variables are case sensitive. My advice, read the error message and work through the code line by line next time 👍 good luck

  • @saheedfalola3033

    @saheedfalola3033

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@QuantPy Wow, I just couldn't see that. The could has worked now!! Thanks! It is such a tremendous work you are doing. God bless

  • @giovannilarosa3327
    @giovannilarosa33272 жыл бұрын

    Is there a way to adapt the monte carlo simulation when there is a dynamic allocation of the portfolio. In much simpler words: I change the stocks in the portfolio with a weekly frequence following certain algorithms (technical, etc.) Is it possible to construct a code that can read the stocks in portfolio and calculate the max potential loss every week? Thanks for attention

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes this is possible, honestly if you can define what you’d like to do, you can almost certainly implement a solution. Feel free to adjust the code as needed. Good luck

  • @andrewbloomfield6905
    @andrewbloomfield69053 жыл бұрын

    Hello, thanks for the video, very helpful. What Python environment are you using here?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m using anaconda’s conda for python environment, the IDE is Visual Studio Code.

  • @andrewbloomfield6905

    @andrewbloomfield6905

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@QuantPy thank you!

  • @helio7478
    @helio7478 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video! Two quick questions tho: 1) the length of the cov matrix is len(weights) x len(weights), right? so why the inner product (L,Z) works? should it not be inner(Z,L) since Z is (T,len(weights)? And therefore meanM can be (T, len(weights)) and not the transpose of that... 2) Why is it necessary to sum the mean in the calculation of the daily returns? Couldn't I just use the inner product?

  • @helio7478

    @helio7478

    Жыл бұрын

    the second question I just checked is to make the new synthetic time series have the same mean as the original. If I don't do this I get a matrix with the same covariance but not the same mean. Do we want them to have the same mean as well?

  • @lex494
    @lex4948 ай бұрын

    Hey man, there is an article on medium that ripped off your code 1:1.

  • @georgelampropoulos6642
    @georgelampropoulos66422 жыл бұрын

    Great attempt! In your video you don't mention anything about volatility. Have you made any specific assumptions on this matter?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, we’ve made a significant assumption about volatility. The covariance matrix is where this comes in. By computing the historical covariance matrix using past stock data, we are assuming that the stock returns will follow these correlations and volatility with respect to each other, into the future.

  • @georgelampropoulos6642

    @georgelampropoulos6642

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@QuantPy Big Thumbs Up!!You helped me understand MC simulation completely!! Keep up the exceptional work!

  • @TheUndergraduateQuant
    @TheUndergraduateQuant5 ай бұрын

    what re the titles of the books on the table?

  • @ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid
    @ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid4 ай бұрын

    @0:07 It's the top left, not top right screen. Well, my monitor at least.

  • @15MuM
    @15MuM3 жыл бұрын

    Hi there thanks for the video. If I want to change the Stock list e.g. TSM (available on yahooFinance) I get the following error: RemoteDataError: No data fetched using 'YahooDailyReader' . Any solutions or ideas there?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Think I may have mentioned in the video, you’ll need to remove “.AX” from the stock name. Just send “TSM” through 👍

  • @jerryli631
    @jerryli6313 жыл бұрын

    great video. Will you produce var calculation with mcs in python?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Will be the next video

  • @PaulConnor
    @PaulConnor2 жыл бұрын

    This is seriously impressive & makes a lovely graph but can you explain how to use the output in practice?

  • @bohdanzhuravel5642

    @bohdanzhuravel5642

    Жыл бұрын

    This stuff gives you an understanding, what can be with your portfolio, based on daily stocks returns

  • @bogdan-remuspintilie5569
    @bogdan-remuspintilie55694 ай бұрын

    (Might help some of you) Ran into an issue with pandas_datareader when importing on VS code. It was because of the interpreter used on VS code.

  • @Kjon48
    @Kjon48Ай бұрын

    Just to tell you that I could not see the code written on the screen because it is black and very small. I wish you had made it bigger, and you had made your picture not big. I was looking forward to learning from you.

  • @marku7z
    @marku7z2 жыл бұрын

    What would be the strategy if we would want to optimize the weights in order to find the best Portfolio weights?

  • @QuantPy

    @QuantPy

    2 жыл бұрын

    This video isn't about portfolio optimisation, but to answer your question you should look at maximising some kind of utility function with certain constraints. Famous optimisation solution to this is obviously Modern Portfolio Theory - check out my video on that for more

  • @sayednab
    @sayednab Жыл бұрын

    why I can't add my own stocks?

  • @hkccp
    @hkccp Жыл бұрын

    How about a portfolio with equity and cds and bonds

  • @user-uv5lr7bk8n
    @user-uv5lr7bk8n2 ай бұрын

    the most important thing is action, like what can you actually do with that?

  • @sarthaksarode3982
    @sarthaksarode398219 күн бұрын

    'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' getting this error

  • @hendrikvanbrantegem7526
    @hendrikvanbrantegem7526 Жыл бұрын

    Great work man! but please remove that background sound

  • @andreaardemagni6401
    @andreaardemagni64019 ай бұрын

    I have a doubt. Once you compute daily returns your portfolio weights change. Your code assume weights are constant and that doesn’t sound right to me. In other words, if a stock daily returns on any given day jump about 10% (extreme example) then its weight at the end of that day will be greater than the one at the beginning of the day. Thoughts?

  • @dnb_finance

    @dnb_finance

    9 ай бұрын

    The weights are the weights of each stock in your portfolio, for example if you have 100 dollars total, 2 stocks, and the weights on those stocks are 0.5 and 0.5 you will have 50 dollars allocated to each stock.

  • @maxhohenstein2602
    @maxhohenstein2602 Жыл бұрын

    well i tried the code but by loading the data from yahoo there comes the error no data fetched from yahoo finance does anybody know how to fix that?

  • @avantiika_2001

    @avantiika_2001

    Жыл бұрын

    same here! someone pls help!

  • @inconnuxtd
    @inconnuxtd Жыл бұрын

    i like your video but please lower the music ^^

  • @al-azzouz309
    @al-azzouz3098 күн бұрын

    Background music that last for two minutes is very noisy

  • @Sachinshastri
    @Sachinshastri11 ай бұрын

    What is the significance of covariance matrix here?

  • @robertcasey1708
    @robertcasey17086 ай бұрын

    Dude your music is too loud

  • @stonecastle858
    @stonecastle858 Жыл бұрын

    I'd love this without the annoying background music at the start that is sometimes more audible than your voice!

  • @theanxiousinvestor4508
    @theanxiousinvestor450810 күн бұрын

    What is with the stupid background music?

  • @JianweiSu
    @JianweiSu Жыл бұрын

    I have a question. I am confused why you do +1 and np.cumprod? shouldn't np.inner(weights, dailyReturns.T) be the portfolio daily return?

  • @candy3935
    @candy393511 ай бұрын

    Hi! I'm having the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:/Programming/PycharmProjects/Modelos Computacionales 2021/Clase 8/Método de Monte carlo.py", line 24, in meanReturns, covMatrix = get_data(stocks, startDate, endDate) File "D:/Programming/PycharmProjects/Modelos Computacionales 2021/Clase 8/Método de Monte carlo.py", line 11, in get_data stockData = pdr.get_data_yahoo(stocks, start, end) File "C:\Users\marce\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py", line 80, in get_data_yahoo return YahooDailyReader(*args, **kwargs).read() File "C:\Users\marce\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py", line 258, in read df = self._dl_mult_symbols(self.symbols) File "C:\Users\marce\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py", line 268, in _dl_mult_symbols stocks[sym] = self._read_one_data(self.url, self._get_params(sym)) File "C:\Users\marce\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py", line 153, in _read_one_data data = j["context"]["dispatcher"]["stores"]["HistoricalPriceStore"] TypeError: string indices must be integers And i'm not sure how to fix it

  • @thegundamkingr

    @thegundamkingr

    7 ай бұрын

    Hi mate not sure if you figured it out but I put a comment above with the solution, you need to use YFinance instead of Pandas Data Reader Replace line 8 of his code with: import yfinance as yf Replace line 12 with: stockData = yf.download(stocks, start, end)

  • @user-lc3wl1iq1v
    @user-lc3wl1iq1v Жыл бұрын

    Great video!