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Beta Weighting of Portfolio Greeks


mauikona

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Would it be easy to add beta weighting portfolio greeks as feature, perhaps to the portfolio window or the account positions window? The formula isn't proprietary, I think, as there are plenty of articles on the web discussing the concept.

When we have many positions, one surprisingly effective way to consider portfolio exposure is by beta-weighting each greek of each position to some index, like SPX (user-configurable), then aggregating them (sum, or product, or something else, I'm not sure on the math).

I'm not that good of a writer, I thought I'd include this excerpt and link explaining the concept in a different way. Hopefully, it's regarded as still on topic.

 

"Beta weighting is a means for investors to put all of their positions into one standard unit. It is a way to look at an entire portfolio and understand how it will change with a move in the market. It tells us about the size, diversity and general risk of our positions." --from https://www.tastytrade.com/tt/learn/beta-weight

 

Here's a link to a feature request thread of a TWS where users have shared there use cases for this feature and eventually voted it to the top of that platforms feature request list: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=2493&sid=8926

 

 

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