6 comments

  • Who is the intended user for this? Pretty much anyone can calculate a mean and standard deviation without a bespoke website.
    • motoxpro1 day ago
      Yeah, what is a "professional grade" sharpe ratio compared to a shape ratio
      • blitzar22 hours ago
        &gt; professional grade<p>vibe coded - I dont know where in the training set the Ai learnt to call everything &quot;professional&quot;, maybe too much linkedin cringe in the dataset but it picked up the habbit and it stuck.<p>Just yesterday I told Claude “If you have to say it, it&#x27;s probably not true” - it of course told me I am right.
      • tripplyons1 day ago
        I think professional-grade is referring to their calculator not the statistic. I don&#x27;t see what would make this site better than throwing your CSV into a spreadsheet or a simple script that would make it considered professional-grade.
        • navquant22 hours ago
          One of the benefits is that the risk free rate is kept up to date on a daily basis. The calculation matches for each day the actual risk free rate, rather than just using the latest available value.
    • k2enemy1 day ago
      I was wondering too. If someone is sophisticated enough to have their return data in a CSV, calculating a Sharpe ratio is trivial. The hard part is already done.
  • molsson1 day ago
    I guess this is the 1yr sharpe plotted over time, ie the sharpe at date X considers the stddev within the previous 365 days etc?<p>Many brokers only show 1yr sharpe or perhaps 3yr sharpe (for example swedish nordnet has 1&#x2F;3&#x2F;5 year sharpe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nordnet.se&#x2F;fonder&#x2F;lista&#x2F;jupiter-gold-silver-usd-b0ea606b?details" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nordnet.se&#x2F;fonder&#x2F;lista&#x2F;jupiter-gold-silver-usd-...</a> )... but very often stocks&#x2F;funds go steadily upwards for several years in &quot;good times&quot; and then we have major drawdowns during turmoil like 2008 or 2020 etc. In these cases, a 1yr or 3yr sharpe can be very misleading.<p>Have you considered also plotting 3yr sharpe and 5yr sharpe over time? Perhaps the length of the sharpe ratio would be configurable in the calculator?
    • navquant22 hours ago
      Right now it uses the total stddev of the portfolio, over the full history provided. It can be changed fairly easily to compute it over a moving window of 1&#x2F;3&#x2F;5 years.
  • rongenre1 day ago
    Sharpe ratio is just the start: it gives you a metric on your portfolio. If it gave an interpretation of what that means, or give guidance on how certain actions would adjust the Sharpe, that might add a lot more value.
    • navquant22 hours ago
      Good point, will add something to give a bit of guidance.
  • thomasfl1 day ago
    How about adding a demo? A demo may even be for a made up non existing fund, named Acme Fund.
    • navquant22 hours ago
      Great idea, will add
  • k2enemy1 day ago
    &gt; Our tool automatically uses the up to date Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR).<p>Are risk free rates matched to return dates? This makes it sound like the tool uses a single risk free rate for all excess return calculations.
    • navquant22 hours ago
      It does not use a single risk free rate for all excess return calculations, but rather matches each return with the risk free rate of the day.
  • shabbychef1 day ago
    Probably better to give some interpretation of the achieved Sharpe, to help end users interpret the results, rather than curating a whole zoo of exotics that nobody understands.
    • navquant22 hours ago
      Valid point. I could show a comparison to known funds or stocks to give an idea of the real performance