# Load packages

# Core
library(tidyverse)
library(tidyquant)

# Source function
source("../00_scripts/simulate_accumulation.R")

1 Import stock prices

Revise the code below.

symbols <- c("NVDA", "WMT", "AMZN", "DELL", "AAPL")

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

Revise the code for weights.

# symbols
symbols <- asset_returns_tbl %>% distinct(asset) %>% pull()
symbols
## [1] "AAPL" "AMZN" "DELL" "NVDA" "WMT"
# 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 AAPL       0.25
## 2 AMZN       0.25
## 3 DELL       0.2 
## 4 NVDA       0.2 
## 5 WMT        0.1

4 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: 60 × 2
##    date        returns
##    <date>        <dbl>
##  1 2013-01-31 -0.0222 
##  2 2013-02-28  0.00126
##  3 2013-03-28  0.0117 
##  4 2013-04-30  0.00581
##  5 2013-05-31  0.0280 
##  6 2013-06-28 -0.0302 
##  7 2013-07-31  0.0635 
##  8 2013-08-30  0.00201
##  9 2013-09-30  0.0333 
## 10 2013-10-31  0.0599 
## # ℹ 50 more rows

5 Simulating growth of a dollar

# Get mean portfolio return
mean_port_return <- mean(portfolio_returns_tbl$returns)
mean_port_return
## [1] 0.02242265
# Get standard deviation of portfolio returns
stddev_port_return <- sd(portfolio_returns_tbl$returns)
stddev_port_return
## [1] 0.0422361

6 Simulation function

simulate_accumulation <- function(initial_value, N, mean_return, sd_return) {
  
    # Add a dollar
    simulated_returns_add_1 <- tibble(returns = c(1, 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) %>%
  tail()
## # A tibble: 6 × 1
##   growth
##    <dbl>
## 1   3.10
## 2   3.15
## 3   3.16
## 4   3.17
## 5   3.18
## 6   3.19
dump(list = c("simulate_accumulation"),
     file = "../00_scripts/simulate_accumulation.R")

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
# for reproducible research
set.seed(1234)

monte_carle_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")

# Find quantiles 
monte_carle_sim_51 %>%
    
    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% 
##  5.17  8.92 13.25 18.39 43.49

8 Visualizing simulations with ggplot

monte_carle_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")

# Step 1 Summarize data into max, median, and min of last value
sim_summary <- monte_carle_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  43.5   13.2  5.17
# Step 2 Plot
monte_carle_sim_51 %>%
    
    # Filter for max, median, 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 Mimimum 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?