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I am hoping to do some portfolio optimization where I want to maximize my possible return subject to the constraint that my variance is below a certain value and no short positions. Is there a way I can use optim to do this ? thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I hope that someone can help me with the following question: I would like to solve the Markowitz optimization problem WITH short-sale constraints. Maybe a procedure to solve a quadratic optimization problem with convex constraints and positive variables is already implemented in R? Thank you very much, edg -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-he...

Thanks Bert. But everyone on that forum wants to use finance tools rather than general optimization stuff! And I am not optimizing a traditional Markowitz mean-variance problem. Plus, smarter people here. :-) > On May 3, 2018, at 3:01 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote: > > You can't -- at least as I read the docs for ?optim (but I'm pretty > ignorant about this, so maybe there's a way to tweak it so yo...

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Michael Ashton <m.ashton at enduringinvestments.com> wrote: > Thanks Bert. But everyone on that forum wants to use finance tools rather than general optimization stuff! And I am not optimizing a traditional Markowitz mean-variance problem. Plus, smarter people here. :-) > I'm very confused by these statements. Most of the "finance tools" use general-purpose global and/or stochastic optimization packages (e.g. rugarch uses nloptr and Rsolnp, PortfolioAnalytics uses DEoptim, pso, GenSA). And mo...

...h at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Michael Ashton > <m.ashton at enduringinvestments.com> wrote: > > Thanks Bert. But everyone on that forum wants to use finance tools > rather than general optimization stuff! And I am not optimizing a > traditional Markowitz mean-variance problem. Plus, smarter people here. :-) > > > I'm very confused by these statements. Most of the "finance tools" > use general-purpose global and/or stochastic optimization packages > (e.g. rugarch uses nloptr and Rsolnp, PortfolioAnalytics uses DEoptim,...

...after restarting it, all was ok. I´m not sure whether this problem is related only to the 2.2.0 version. But it seems to be a serious bug. I hope that I don´t have missed to read some part of the documentation which deals with that problem. However, keep up the good work. Best regards, Stefan Markowitz s.markowitz@gmx.de

Hello, I hesitate to call this a bug, because I could have forgotten something important, but the MarkowitzPortfolio example in fPortfolio does not work for me. Here's my code: > library(fPortfolio) > >xmpPortfolio("\nStart: Load monthly data set of returns > ") > data(berndtInvest) > # Exclude Date, Market and Interest Rate columns from data frame, &gt...

You can't -- at least as I read the docs for ?optim (but I'm pretty ignorant about this, so maybe there's a way to tweak it so you can). See here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html for other R optimization capabilities. Also, given your credentials, the r-sig-finance list might be a better place for you to post your query. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter

Hi ? This is giving me a headache. I?m trying to do a relatively simple optimization ? actually trying to approximate the output from the Excel Solver function but at roughly 1000x the speed. ? The optimization parameters look like this. The only trouble is that I want to add a constraint that sum(wgt.vect)=1, and I can?t figure out how to do that in optim. Mo.vect <-