IPortfolioOptimizer.cs

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namespace QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Portfolio
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interface for portfolio optimization algorithms
    /// </summary>
    public interface IPortfolioOptimizer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Perform portfolio optimization for a provided matrix of historical returns and an array of expected returns
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="historicalReturns">Matrix of annualized historical returns where each column represents a security and each row returns for the given date/time (size: K x N).</param>
        /// <param name="expectedReturns">Array of double with the portfolio annualized expected returns (size: K x 1).</param>
        /// <param name="covariance">Multi-dimensional array of double with the portfolio covariance of annualized returns (size: K x K).</param>
        /// <returns>Array of double with the portfolio weights (size: K x 1)</returns>
        double[] Optimize(double[,] historicalReturns, double[] expectedReturns = null, double[,] covariance = null);
    }
}