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var Learn how to calculate the Value at Risk (VaR) of your portfolio using different parameters and statistical methods. This guide provides examples and an explanation of all the options.
Value at Risk
VaR
portfolio
portfolio return
Cornish-Fisher-Expansion
student-t distribution
percentile
VaR calculations
Historical VaR

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Provides value at risk (short: VaR) of the selected portfolio.

Usage

var [-m] [-a] [-s] [-p PERCENTILE]

Parameters

Name Description Default Optional Choices
use_mean If one should use the mean of the portfolio return True True None
adjusted If the VaR should be adjusted for skew and kurtosis (Cornish-Fisher-Expansion) False True None
student_t If one should use the student-t distribution False True None
percentile Percentile used for VaR calculations, for example input 99.9 equals a 99.9 Percent VaR 99.9 True None

Examples

2022 Feb 25, 03:09 (🦋) /portfolio/ $ var
       Portfolio Value at Risk
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃       ┃ VaR:    ┃ Historical VaR: ┃
┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 90.0% │ -0.0148 │ -0.0135         │
├───────┼─────────┼─────────────────┤
│ 95.0% │ -0.0189 │ -0.0197         │
├───────┼─────────┼─────────────────┤
│ 99.0% │ -0.0267 │ -0.0258         │
├───────┼─────────┼─────────────────┤
│ 99.9% │ -0.0353 │ -0.0276         │
└───────┴─────────┴─────────────────┘