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Hi,

So I was asked to calculate the maximum sharpe ratio using solver in excel but it gave me really big numbers for the portfolio weights. So I was wondering what is a good constraint to add and why is it bad or if it is even feasible to have portfolio weights so heavily in a long or short position?

Cheers.

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    $\begingroup$ if your issue is large portfolio weights then consider ridge regression or lasso regression. They are both regularisation techniques which you can investigate on wikipedia $\endgroup$
    – Attack68 ♦
    Oct 13, 2020 at 5:12
  • $\begingroup$ You can also add constraints for the following: 1. Beta of the portfolio 2. Volatility of the portfolio (Standard Deviation) 3. Leverage of the portfolio, as defined as sum(abs(weight)) $\endgroup$
    – JPN
    Oct 13, 2020 at 12:46
  • $\begingroup$ Don’t use excel if you want to be taken seriously. R and python both have really good libraries (eg cvtopt or scipy) to optimize including constraints. $\endgroup$
    – user50421
    Oct 17, 2020 at 2:20

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