MinimumVariancePortfolioOptimizer.cs

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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Accord.Math;
using Accord.Math.Optimization;
using Accord.Statistics;
 
namespace QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Portfolio
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Provides an implementation of a minimum variance portfolio optimizer that calculate the optimal weights
    /// with the weight range from -1 to 1 and minimize the portfolio variance with a target return of 2%
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>The budged constrain is scaled down/up to ensure that the sum of the absolute value of the weights is 1.</remarks>
    public class MinimumVariancePortfolioOptimizer : IPortfolioOptimizer
    {
        private double _lower;
        private double _upper;
        private double _targetReturn;
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Initialize a new instance of <see cref="MinimumVariancePortfolioOptimizer"/>
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="lower">Lower bound</param>
        /// <param name="upper">Upper bound</param>
        /// <param name="targetReturn">Target return</param>
        public MinimumVariancePortfolioOptimizer(double lower = -1, double upper = 1, double targetReturn = 0.02)
        {
            _lower = lower;
            _upper = upper;
            _targetReturn = targetReturn;
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Sum of all weight is one: 1^T w = 1 / Σw = 1
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="size">number of variables</param>
        /// <returns>linear constaraint object</returns>
        protected LinearConstraint GetBudgetConstraint(int size)
        {
            return new LinearConstraint(size)
            {
                CombinedAs = Vector.Create(size, 1.0),
                ShouldBe = ConstraintType.EqualTo,
                Value = 1.0
            };
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Boundary constraints on weights: lw ≤ w ≤ up
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="size">number of variables</param>
        /// <returns>enumeration of linear constaraint objects</returns>
        protected IEnumerable<LinearConstraint> GetBoundaryConditions(int size)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < size; i++)
            {
                yield return new LinearConstraint(1)
                {
                    VariablesAtIndices = new[] { i },
                    ShouldBe = ConstraintType.GreaterThanOrEqualTo,
                    Value = _lower
                };
                yield return new LinearConstraint(1)
                {
                    VariablesAtIndices = new[] { i },
                    ShouldBe = ConstraintType.LesserThanOrEqualTo,
                    Value = _upper
                };
            }
        }
 
        /// <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>
        public double[] Optimize(double[,] historicalReturns, double[] expectedReturns = null, double[,] covariance = null)
        {
            covariance ??=  historicalReturns.Covariance();
            var size = covariance.GetLength(0);
            var returns = expectedReturns ?? historicalReturns.Mean(0);
 
            var constraints = new List<LinearConstraint>
            {
                // w^T µ ≥ β
                new (size)
                {
                    CombinedAs = returns,
                    ShouldBe = ConstraintType.EqualTo,
                    Value = _targetReturn
                },
                // Σw = 1
                GetBudgetConstraint(size),
            };
            
            // lw ≤ w ≤ up
            constraints.AddRange(GetBoundaryConditions(size));
 
            // Setup solver
            var optfunc = new QuadraticObjectiveFunction(covariance, Vector.Create(size, 0.0));
            var solver = new GoldfarbIdnani(optfunc, constraints);
 
            // Solve problem
            var x0 = Vector.Create(size, 1.0 / size);
            var success = solver.Minimize(Vector.Copy(x0));
            if (!success) return x0;
 
            // We cannot accept NaN
            var solution = solver.Solution
                .Select(x => x.IsNaNOrInfinity() ? 0 : x).ToArray();
 
            // Scale the solution to ensure that the sum of the absolute weights is 1
            var sumOfAbsoluteWeights = solution.Abs().Sum();
            if (sumOfAbsoluteWeights.IsNaNOrZero()) return x0;
 
            return solution.Divide(sumOfAbsoluteWeights);
        }
    }
}