1 Import stock prices of your choice

## # A tibble: 1,255 × 8
##    symbol date        open  high   low close  volume adjusted
##    <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>    <dbl>
##  1 COST   2022-01-03  565.  567.  556.  567. 2714100     538.
##  2 COST   2022-01-04  564.  569.  562.  564. 2097500     536.
##  3 COST   2022-01-05  564.  565.  550.  550. 2887500     522.
##  4 COST   2022-01-06  546.  554.  544.  550. 2503100     522.
##  5 COST   2022-01-07  548.  548.  534.  536. 2323900     509.
##  6 COST   2022-01-10  529.  530.  508.  519. 4916800     492.
##  7 COST   2022-01-11  519.  522.  510.  522. 2457300     496.
##  8 COST   2022-01-12  522.  530.  522.  526. 1729500     499.
##  9 COST   2022-01-13  528.  529.  515.  517. 2428100     491.
## 10 COST   2022-01-14  512.  513.  502.  503. 3872500     477.
## # ℹ 1,245 more rows

2 Convert prices to returns by quarterly

## # A tibble: 20 × 3
## # Groups:   symbol [5]
##    symbol date          return
##    <chr>  <date>         <dbl>
##  1 COST   2022-03-31  0.0177  
##  2 COST   2022-06-30 -0.166   
##  3 COST   2022-09-30 -0.0129  
##  4 COST   2022-12-30 -0.0316  
##  5 DIS    2022-03-31 -0.125   
##  6 DIS    2022-06-30 -0.312   
##  7 DIS    2022-09-30 -0.000741
##  8 DIS    2022-12-30 -0.0790  
##  9 NKE    2022-03-31 -0.181   
## 10 NKE    2022-06-30 -0.239   
## 11 NKE    2022-09-30 -0.184   
## 12 NKE    2022-12-30  0.412   
## 13 SBUX   2022-03-31 -0.216   
## 14 SBUX   2022-06-30 -0.154   
## 15 SBUX   2022-09-30  0.109   
## 16 SBUX   2022-12-30  0.184   
## 17 F      2022-03-31 -0.219   
## 18 F      2022-06-30 -0.337   
## 19 F      2022-09-30  0.0163  
## 20 F      2022-12-30  0.0492

3 Make plot

4 Interpret the plot

## # A tibble: 1 × 3
##   typical_return maximum_return minimum_return
##            <dbl>          <dbl>          <dbl>
## 1        -0.0735          0.412         -0.337

Typical return: The average quarterly return across the five stocks in 2022 was −7.35%. Maximum: The highest observed quarterly return was 41.2%. Minimum: The lowest observed quarterly return was −33.7%, representing the largest quarterly loss in this sample.

5 Change the global chunck options

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