Re: [R] Value-at-Risk Portfolio(both equity and option)

2010-04-01 Thread zhang
Thank you very much. Since I have never heard of blotter before, now I am really excited. It seems exactly what I have been searching. Would be really grateful if you could share some codes/examples regarding to this. I did not happen to find the help file for the package. Thanks again. --

Re: [R] Value-at-Risk Portfolio(both equity and option)

2010-03-31 Thread zhang
Thank you very much. It is very helpful. As far as I understand, not easy to have a function to combine both the equity part and the option part? -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Value-at-Risk-Portfolio-both-equity-and-option-tp1745179p1746520.html Sent from the R help

Re: [R] Value-at-Risk Portfolio(both equity and option)

2010-03-31 Thread Cedrick Johnson
One thing that comes to mind immediately is the 'blotter' package which I believe is designed to handle and track multiple instruments. A sloppy temporary solution I guess would be to do some type of lookup or a flag that denotes which instrument is an option and apply the VaR methodology

[R] Value-at-Risk Portfolio(both equity and option)

2010-03-30 Thread zhang
Hello All, I am working on the risk measures for a portfolio, which contain both equity futures, equity options and currency options. There are many packages related with the portoflio which only contain the equities,I wonder whether there is any avaible package that could include the option.

Re: [R] Value-at-Risk Portfolio(both equity and option)

2010-03-30 Thread Cedrick Johnson
Check out this discussion on r-sig-finance regarding VaR for options. Quite informative and should be a good starting point. -c On 3/30/10, zhang yn19...@msn.com wrote: Hello All, I am working on the risk measures for a portfolio, which contain both equity futures, equity options and

Re: [R] Value-at-Risk Portfolio(both equity and option)

2010-03-30 Thread Cedrick Johnson
It would help if I included the link: http://n4.nabble.com/VaR-for-path-dependent-option-portfolio-td1676787.html -c On 3/30/10, Cedrick Johnson cedr...@cedrickjohnson.com wrote: Check out this discussion on r-sig-finance regarding VaR for options. Quite informative and should be a good