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How much should you expect from your $100 investment after 20 years?
Brody DeMasi
2025-06-26
# Load packages
# Core
library(tidyverse)
library(tidyquant)
library(dplyr)
# time series
library(timetk)1 Import stock prices
Revise the code below.
- Replace symbols with your stocks.
- Replace the from and the to arguments to date from 2012-12-31 to present.
symbols <- c("NVDA", "SHOP", "ASML", "META", "UPST")
prices <- tq_get(x = symbols,
get = "stock.prices",
from = "2012-12-31")2 Convert prices to returns
asset_returns_tbl <- prices %>%
group_by(symbol) %>%
tq_transmute(select = adjusted,
mutate_fun = periodReturn,
period = "monthly",
type = "log") %>%
slice(-1) %>%
ungroup() %>%
set_names(c("asset", "date", "returns"))3 Assign a weight to each asset
Revise the code for weights.
- The vector weights should have a length equal to the number of assets in the portfolio.
- The values in the vector weights should sum to 1.
# symbols
symbols <- asset_returns_tbl %>% distinct(asset) %>% pull()
symbols## [1] "ASML" "META" "NVDA" "SHOP" "UPST"# weights
weights <- c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1)
weights## [1] 0.25 0.25 0.20 0.20 0.10w_tbl <- tibble(symbols, weights)
w_tbl## # A tibble: 5 × 2
## symbols weights
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 ASML 0.25
## 2 META 0.25
## 3 NVDA 0.2
## 4 SHOP 0.2
## 5 UPST 0.14 Build a portfolio
portfolio_returns_tbl <- asset_returns_tbl %>%
tq_portfolio(assets_col = asset,
returns_col = returns,
weights = w_tbl,
rebalance_on = "months",
col_rename = "returns")
portfolio_returns_tbl## # A tibble: 150 × 2
## date returns
## <date> <dbl>
## 1 2013-01-31 0.0764
## 2 2013-02-28 -0.0385
## 3 2013-03-28 -0.0239
## 4 2013-04-30 0.0595
## 5 2013-05-31 0.000255
## 6 2013-06-28 -0.00738
## 7 2013-07-31 0.136
## 8 2013-08-30 0.0259
## 9 2013-09-30 0.0912
## 10 2013-10-31 -0.0154
## # ℹ 140 more rows5 Simulating growth of a dollar
# Get mean portfolio return
mean_port_return <- mean(portfolio_returns_tbl$returns)
mean_port_return## [1] 0.02357811# Get standard deviation of portfolio returns
stddev_port_return <- sd(portfolio_returns_tbl$returns)
stddev_port_return## [1] 0.081230176 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 = .01) %>%
tail()## # A tibble: 6 × 1
## growth
## <dbl>
## 1 245.
## 2 248.
## 3 246.
## 4 245.
## 5 244.
## 6 247.7 Running multiple simulations
# Create 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 <- 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## # 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 %>%
group_by(sim) %>%
summarise(growth = last(growth)) %>%
ungroup() %>%
pull(growth) %>%
quantile(probs = c(0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1)) %>%
round(2)## 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
## 2.66 6.24 11.11 17.83 75.638 Visualizing simulations with ggplot
monte_carlo_sim %>%
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 $1 over 120 months")
Line plot with max, median, and min
# Step 1 Summarize data into max, median, and min of last value
sim_summary <- monte_carlo_sim %>%
group_by(sim) %>%
summarise(growth = last(growth)) %>%
ungroup() %>%
summarise(max = max(growth),
median = median(growth),
min = min(growth))
sim_summary## # A tibble: 1 × 3
## max median min
## <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 75.6 11.1 2.66# Step 2 Plot
monte_carlo_sim %>%
# Filter for max, median, and min sim
group_by(sim) %>%
filter(last(growth) == sim_summary$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 = "Maximum, Median, and Minimum Simulation") 
Based on the Monte Carlo simulation results, how much should you expect from your $100 investment after 20 years? What is the best-case scenario? What is the worst-case scenario? What are limitations of this simulation analysis?
Worst case I would make around a 0.1 dolar growth on average I would see around 12-15 returns, and max I would see around a 120 dollar return. The limitations to this are that it cannot predict what could happen to certain companys, and it also cannot predict what could happen to our economy. Like how the tarriffs which will be added soon may affect the stock market.