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Current portfolio description

Your savings are invested in a portfolio made of 3 stocks: Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft. Each stocks has the same weight in the portfolio at 33%. You have some extra cash to invest, but before going any further, you want to gather some information on your existing portfolio.

In this exercise, you are provided with a dataset data containing the value and the return of the portfolio over time, in value and return, respectively.

This exercise is part of the course

Visualizing Time Series Data in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Plot the portfolio value with the title "Portfolio Value"
  • Plot the portfolio return with the title "Portfolio Return"
  • Plot a histogram of the portfolio return
  • Add a density line in red and twice as thick as normal

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Plot the portfolio value


# Plot the portfolio return


# Plot a histogram of portfolio return 


# Add a density line
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