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using Accord.Math;
using Accord.Statistics;
namespace QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Portfolio
{
///
/// Provides an implementation of a portfolio optimizer with unconstrained mean variance.
///
public class UnconstrainedMeanVariancePortfolioOptimizer : IPortfolioOptimizer
{
///
/// Perform portfolio optimization for a provided matrix of historical returns and an array of expected returns
///
/// Matrix of historical returns where each column represents a security and each row returns for the given date/time (size: K x N).
/// Array of double with the portfolio annualized expected returns (size: K x 1).
/// Multi-dimensional array of double with the portfolio covariance of annualized returns (size: K x K).
/// Array of double with the portfolio weights (size: K x 1)
public double[] Optimize(double[,] historicalReturns, double[] expectedReturns = null, double[,] covariance = null)
{
var Π = (expectedReturns ?? historicalReturns.Mean(0));
var Σ = covariance ?? historicalReturns.Covariance();
return Π.Dot(Σ.Inverse());
}
}
}