In this section, we show you how to use the Monte Carlo simulation to generate returns for a pair of stocks with known means, standard deviations, and correlation between them. By applying the maximize function, we minimize the portfolio risk of this two-stock portfolio. Then, we change the correlations between the two stocks to illustrate the impact of correlation on our efficient frontier. The last one is the most complex one since it constructs an efficient frontier based on n stocks.

Finding an efficient frontier based on two stocks

The following program aims at generating an efficient frontier based on two stocks with known means, standard deviations, and correlation. We have just six input values: two means, two standard deviations, the correlation (), and the number of simulations. To generate the correlated y1 and y2 time series, we generate the uncorrelated x1 and x2 series first. Then, we apply the following formulae:

Another important issue...