Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Starting value of conditional mean and variance

2015-10-05 Thread Patrick Burns
in conditional variance estimation by GARCH(1,1) model. But is the same logic applicable for conditional mean estimation with the help of ARIMA model, too? Or do I have to take any precaution for the same? Best regards, Samit Paul On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Patrick Burns <patr...@burns-stat.

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Starting value of conditional mean and variance

2015-10-04 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Failure of solve.QP in portfolio modeling

2015-09-22 Thread Patrick Burns
misinterpreted the original post.) Pat On 22/09/2015 19:59, Patrick Burns wrote: You can use a factor model or shrinkage to get a positive definite variance matrix. There is a function for each in the BurStFin package on CRAN. The optimizer in Portfolio Probe doesn't care about positive

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Failure of solve.QP in portfolio modeling

2015-09-22 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Solver for a generic optimal portfolio

2016-03-12 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] random portfolios

2017-03-26 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] portfolio.optim and error in solve.QP: matrix D not positive definite

2011-01-30 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Measure quality of fit for MA(q), ARMA(p, q) and GARCH(p, q)

2011-06-04 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] convert volatility of log returns to dollars

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Sharpe's algorithm for portfolio improvement

2011-08-02 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Strategies based on Neural Networks (or SVMs) - any experience with R ?

2011-08-23 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] missing data in return series...

2011-09-19 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] A question on volatility

2011-10-05 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Skewness function for intraday data return distribution

2011-10-31 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] help with egarch prediction

2011-11-23 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] External regressors

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] correlation matrix

2011-11-27 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Option valuation for arbitrary distribution using monte carlo simulation

2011-12-23 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] dynamic window size in rolling linear regression?

2012-01-12 Thread Patrick Burns
robust or lasso, ridge, pls... Food for thoughts... *Da:* Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com *A:* r-sig-finance@r-project.org *Inviato:* Mercoledì 11 Gennaio 2012 17:35 *Oggetto:* Re: [R-SIG-Finance] dynamic window size

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] dynamic window size in rolling linear regression?

2012-01-12 Thread Patrick Burns
On 12/01/2012 10:05, riccardo visca wrote: [...] So I think you are right and wrong ... I absolutely agree. Though we may still have a discussion on which is which. Pat *Da:* Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com

[R-SIG-Finance] How to search the archives

2012-01-19 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] tawny: deriving

2012-01-28 Thread Patrick Burns
pages (apologies for being demanding!!). Packages fPortfolio and corpcor didn't seem to provide any of this information either for the newbie crowd. S.hat- cov.shrink(h) Got intensity k = 146.8918 and coefficient d = 0.9792788 Regards Rohan Sadler -- Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com http

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] correlation based time series clustering?

2012-02-23 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Are there genetic algorithm for trading strategy evolution in R?

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Are there genetic algorithm for trading strategy evolution in R?

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Burns
the sensitivity of the model and the selection of appropriate parameters - this is useful. But playing with the evolutionary strategy, what you Michael ask, is very risky. regards, Daniel 2012/3/8 Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com mailto:patr...@burns-stat.com Comments inline. On 08

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Vectorized local min/max finding

2012-03-23 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Using attachSymbols with non-default argument values (Was: the ZigZag function)

2012-04-27 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Indexing Package

2012-04-28 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Example using Galgo to Optimize Parameters

2012-09-12 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] About Garch models

2012-09-18 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] About Garch models

2012-09-18 Thread Patrick Burns
to me. p-values close to 1. What does the sentence mean: - Whenever Ljung -Box p-values close to 1 , never belive it.? or - Should I run other type of autocorrelation test? best Jaimie 2012/9/18 Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com mailto:patr...@burns-stat.com You should *not* believe

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] agent-based model

2012-10-05 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] ugarchfit function of rugarch package needs at least 100 data points.

2012-10-09 Thread Patrick Burns
with less than 100 observations? Any type of suggestion will be extremely helpful. -- Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com http://www.burns-stat.com http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog twitter: @portfolioprobe ___ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] ugarchfit function of rugarch package needs at least 100 data points.

2012-10-10 Thread Patrick Burns
-project.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:05 PM To: r-sig-finance@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] ugarchfit function of rugarch package needs at least 100 data points. The blog post: http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2012/09/17/variability-of-garch-estimates/ shows

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] statistical features of equity time series

2012-10-28 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] simulation

2012-12-30 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Monte Carlo Simulation

2013-02-21 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] ploting time series

2013-11-26 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Is there a general solution (package) for a portfolio optimization ?

2014-07-05 Thread Patrick Burns
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Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Is there a general solution (package) for a portfolio optimization ?

2014-07-05 Thread Patrick Burns
05.07.2014 12:45, schrieb Patrick Burns: I'd say those calls are doing the right thing for (sort of) the wrong reason. If the variance matrix input into a portfolio optimization is singular, then the optimizer will think that an eigenvector associated with a zero eigenvalue gives you a riskless