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# Load packages

# Core
library(tidyverse)
library(tidyquant)

# time series
library(timetk)

Goal

Simulate future portfolio returns

five stocks: “SPY”, “EFA”, “IJS”, “EEM”, “AGG”

market: “SPY”

from 2012-12-31 to 2017-12-31

1 Import stock prices

symbols <- c("SPY", "EFA", "IJS", "EEM", "AGG")

prices <- tq_get(x = symbols,
get = "stock.prices",
from = "2012-12-31",
to = "2017-12-31")

2 Convert prices to returns

asset_returns_tbl <- prices %>%

group_by(symbol) %>%

tq_transmute(select = adjusted, 
mutate_fun = periodReturn, 
period = "monthly",
type = "log") %>%

slice(-1) %>%

ungroup() %>%

set_names(c("asset", "date", "returns"))

3 Assign a weight to each asset

# symbols
symbols <- asset_returns_tbl %>% distinct(asset) %>% pull()
symbols
## [1] "AGG" "EEM" "EFA" "IJS" "SPY"
# weights
weights <- c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1)
weights
## [1] 0.25 0.25 0.20 0.20 0.10
w_tbl <- tibble(symbols, weights)
w_tbl
## # A tibble: 5 × 2
##   symbols weights
##   <chr>     <dbl>
## 1 AGG        0.25
## 2 EEM        0.25
## 3 EFA        0.2 
## 4 IJS        0.2 
## 5 SPY        0.1

4 Build a portfolio

# ?tq_portfolio

portfolio_returns_tbl <- asset_returns_tbl %>%

tq_portfolio(assets_col = asset, 
returns_col = returns, 
weights = w_tbl, 
rebalance_on = "months", 
col_rename = "returns")

portfolio_returns_tbl
## # A tibble: 60 × 2
##    date        returns
##    <date>        <dbl>
##  1 2013-01-31  0.0204 
##  2 2013-02-28 -0.00239
##  3 2013-03-28  0.0121 
##  4 2013-04-30  0.0174 
##  5 2013-05-31 -0.0128 
##  6 2013-06-28 -0.0247 
##  7 2013-07-31  0.0321 
##  8 2013-08-30 -0.0224 
##  9 2013-09-30  0.0511 
## 10 2013-10-31  0.0301 
## # ℹ 50 more rows

5 Simulating growth of a dollar

# Get mean portfolio return
mean_port_return <- mean(portfolio_returns_tbl$returns)
mean_port_return
## [1] 0.005899133
# Get standard deviation of portfolio returns
stddev_port_return <- sd(portfolio_returns_tbl$returns)
stddev_port_return
## [1] 0.02347491
# Construct a normal distribution
simulated_monthly_returns <- rnorm(120, mean_port_return, stddev_port_return)
simulated_monthly_returns
##   [1]  0.0114258681  0.0382204239 -0.0327464044  0.0362028087  0.0134447230
##   [6] -0.0023213363  0.0060137016 -0.0167954209  0.0425813199  0.0300550038
##  [11]  0.0173470552 -0.0095464868 -0.0059179706 -0.0290869250 -0.0054840910
##  [16] -0.0068652078  0.0326681124  0.0537718484  0.0419981094  0.0047883589
##  [21] -0.0038703182 -0.0042418807 -0.0205813093  0.0029588779  0.0027546932
##  [26] -0.0120350412  0.0006638152 -0.0194534360 -0.0250117129 -0.0539896060
##  [31]  0.0394259278  0.0341779785 -0.0364026092  0.0237996577 -0.0071055181
##  [36] -0.0184080707 -0.0128783803  0.0147247595 -0.0062263176 -0.0379655438
##  [41]  0.0200088139  0.0198888707  0.0226550008 -0.0137237317  0.0376171097
##  [46] -0.0241751903  0.0246517867  0.0060210429  0.0232537915  0.0291010443
##  [51]  0.0081046421 -0.0107670691 -0.0361710909  0.0138997206 -0.0056007904
##  [56]  0.0223870692 -0.0126979905  0.0216782456 -0.0168644829  0.0318989711
##  [61]  0.0143959797  0.0006612105 -0.0133141216 -0.0129633740  0.0256893657
##  [66] -0.0069821754  0.0110394276  0.0253962559 -0.0189605002  0.0201396622
##  [71] -0.0064277370  0.0209232267  0.0017429690  0.0545311231  0.0102038149
##  [76]  0.0372330055 -0.0131167022  0.0408809879 -0.0030146316  0.0052509411
##  [81]  0.0079214321  0.0497065541 -0.0021762148  0.0052544299  0.0125272997
##  [86] -0.0026622164 -0.0250234961 -0.0034958886  0.0117939263  0.0338583139
##  [91]  0.0300727570  0.0392499814 -0.0031818308  0.0131226782 -0.0615470410
##  [96] -0.0087704465  0.0096502229  0.0073355171  0.0002587300  0.0170258596
## [101]  0.0469912284  0.0128003716 -0.0072841121 -0.0016885715  0.0172123552
## [106] -0.0249545272  0.0239513834 -0.0452690269  0.0115380136  0.0061912647
## [111]  0.0408395723  0.0359430468  0.0041093335 -0.0240606063  0.0229568255
## [116]  0.0214661279  0.0106916914  0.0278639704  0.0079549381  0.0401534256
# Add a dollar
simulated_returns_add_1 <- tibble(returns = c(1, 1 + simulated_monthly_returns))
simulated_returns_add_1
## # A tibble: 121 × 1
##    returns
##      <dbl>
##  1   1    
##  2   1.01 
##  3   1.04 
##  4   0.967
##  5   1.04 
##  6   1.01 
##  7   0.998
##  8   1.01 
##  9   0.983
## 10   1.04 
## # ℹ 111 more rows
# Calculate the cumulative growth of a dollar
simulated_growth <- simulated_returns_add_1 %>%
mutate(growth = accumulate(returns, function(x, y) x*y)) %>%
select(growth)

simulated_growth
## # A tibble: 121 × 1
##    growth
##     <dbl>
##  1   1   
##  2   1.01
##  3   1.05
##  4   1.02
##  5   1.05
##  6   1.07
##  7   1.06
##  8   1.07
##  9   1.05
## 10   1.10
## # ℹ 111 more rows
# Check the compound annual growth rate
cagr <- ((simulated_growth$growth[nrow(simulated_growth)]^(1/10)) - 1) * 100
cagr
## [1] 7.877448

6 Simulation function

simulate_accumulation <- function(initial_value, N, mean_return, sd_return) {

# Add a dollar
simulated_returns_add_1 <- tibble(returns = c(initial_value, 1 + rnorm(N, mean_return, sd_return)))

# Calculate the cumulative growth of a dollar
simulated_growth <- simulated_returns_add_1 %>%
mutate(growth = accumulate(returns, function(x, y) x*y)) %>%
select(growth)

return(simulated_growth)

}

simulate_accumulation(initial_value = 100, N = 240, mean_return = 0.005, sd_return = 0.01)
## # A tibble: 241 × 1
##    growth
##     <dbl>
##  1   100 
##  2   102.
##  3   104.
##  4   104.
##  5   103.
##  6   105.
##  7   107.
##  8   108.
##  9   107.
## 10   107.
## # ℹ 231 more rows

7 Running multiple simulations

# cretae a vector of 1s as a starting point
sims <- 51
starts<- rep(1, sims) %>%
set_names(paste0("sim", 1:sims))

starts
##  sim1  sim2  sim3  sim4  sim5  sim6  sim7  sim8  sim9 sim10 sim11 sim12 sim13 
##     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1 
## sim14 sim15 sim16 sim17 sim18 sim19 sim20 sim21 sim22 sim23 sim24 sim25 sim26 
##     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1 
## sim27 sim28 sim29 sim30 sim31 sim32 sim33 sim34 sim35 sim36 sim37 sim38 sim39 
##     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1 
## sim40 sim41 sim42 sim43 sim44 sim45 sim46 sim47 sim48 sim49 sim50 sim51 
##     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1
# simulate
monte_carlo_sim_51 <-starts %>%

# simulate
map_dfc(.x = ., 
.f = ~simulate_accumulation(initial_value = .x, 
N = 120, 
mean_return = mean_port_return, 
sd_return = stddev_port_return)) %>%

# add column Month
mutate(month = 1:nrow(.)) %>%
select(month, everything()) %>%

# rearrange column names
set_names(c("month", names(starts))) %>%

# transform to long form
pivot_longer(cols = -month, names_to = "sim", values_to = "growth")

monte_carlo_sim_51
## # A tibble: 6,171 × 3
##    month sim   growth
##    <int> <chr>  <dbl>
##  1     1 sim1       1
##  2     1 sim2       1
##  3     1 sim3       1
##  4     1 sim4       1
##  5     1 sim5       1
##  6     1 sim6       1
##  7     1 sim7       1
##  8     1 sim8       1
##  9     1 sim9       1
## 10     1 sim10      1
## # ℹ 6,161 more rows
# find quantiles
monte_carlo_sim_51 %>%

group_by(sim) %>%
summarise(growth = last(growth)) %>%
ungroup() %>%
pull(growth) %>%

quantile(probs = c(0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1)) %>%
round(2)
##   0%  25%  50%  75% 100% 
## 1.05 1.72 1.96 2.29 2.96

8 Visualizing simulations with ggplot

monte_carlo_sim_51 %>%

ggplot(aes(x = month, y = growth, color = sim)) +
geom_line() +
theme(legend.position = "none") +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +


labs(title = "simulating growth of $1 over 120 months")

line plot with max, median, and min

# step 1 summarize data into max, median, and min of last value
sim_summary <- monte_carlo_sim_51 %>%

group_by(sim) %>%
summarise(growth = last(growth)) %>%
ungroup() %>%

summarise(max = max(growth),
median = median(growth),
min = min(growth))

sim_summary
## # A tibble: 1 × 3
##     max median   min
##   <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl>
## 1  2.96   1.96  1.05
# step 2 plot
monte_carlo_sim_51 %>%

# filter for max, min, median sim
group_by(sim) %>%
filter(last(growth) == sim_summary$max |
last(growth) == sim_summary$median |
last(growth) == sim_summary$min) %>%
ungroup() %>%

# plot
ggplot(aes(x = month, y = growth, color = sim)) +
geom_line() +
theme(legend.position = "none") +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +
theme(plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +
labs(title = "simulating growth of $1 over 120 months",
subtitle = "max, med, and min sim")