$title Standard QP Model - Symmetry Exploitations (QP2,SEQ=172) $onText This version better exploits the symmetry of a quadratic form. Additional information can be found at: /modlib/adddocs/qp2doc.htm Kalvelagen, E, Model Building with GAMS. forthcoming de Wetering, A V, private communication. Keywords: nonlinear programming, quadratic programming, symmetry exploitation, finance $offText $include qpdata.inc Set d(days) 'selected days' s(stocks) 'selected stocks'; Alias (s,t); * select subset of stocks and periods d(days) = ord(days) > 1 and ord(days) < 31; s(stocks) = ord(stocks) < 51; Parameter mean(stocks) 'mean of daily return' dev(stocks,days) 'deviations' covar(stocks,sstocks) 'covariance matrix of returns (upper)' totmean 'total mean return'; mean(s) = sum(d, return(s,d))/card(d); dev(s,d) = return(s,d) - mean(s); * calculate covariance * to save memory and time we only compute the uppertriangular * part as the covariance matrix is symmetric covar(upper(s,t)) = 2*sum(d, dev(s,d)*dev(t,d))/(card(d) - 1); covar(s,s) = covar(s,s)/2; totmean = sum(s, mean(s))/(card(s)); Variable z 'objective variable' x(stocks) 'investments'; Positive Variable x; Equation obj 'objective' budget retcon 'return constraint'; obj.. z =e= sum((s,t), x(s)*covar(s,t)*x(t)); budget.. sum(s, x(s)) =e= 1.0; retcon.. sum(s, mean(s)*x(s)) =g= totmean*1.25; Model qp2 / all /; * Some solvers need more memory qp2.workFactor = 6; solve qp2 using nlp minimizing z; display x.l;