In this post, I use Python to create an example of efficient frontier, build a web app by streamlit package, and host on pythonanywhere.

Main reference is here.

2022-11-18 and 11-19 updates:

Results of US stock market:

Background information

Start Date End Date Risk Free Rate
2017-11-20 2022-11-19 0.03

Portfolio information

Portfolio Sharpe Ratio Returns (%) Volatility (%)
Max SR 1.11546 43.28 38.8
Min Vol 0.632231 16.83 26.62

Composition details

Portfolio Composition (%) GE JPM GOOG AAPL TSLA
Max SR 0 0 0 62 38
Min Vol 7 35 36 21 0

Efficient frontier plot

Results of CN stock market:

Background information

Start Date End Date Risk Free Rate
2017-11-20 2022-11-19 0.03

Portfolio information

Portfolio Sharpe Ratio Returns (%) Volatility (%)
Max SR 0.0625946 1.24 19.81
Min Vol 0.0455992 0.86 18.86

Composition details

Portfolio Composition (%) 510050.SS 510300.SS 510180.SS 512800.SS 512880.SS
Max SR 0 0 0 98 2
Min Vol 0 19 26 56 0

Efficient frontier plot

Some notes:

  • Return: percentage change of stock price;
  • Volatility: standard deviation of return;
  • Sharpe ratio = Return/Volatility;
  • For coding details, see this github post.