I tried with Rmetrics too, but the behaviour is the same. So I am missing something... Very interesting to understand why. :)
I think it's a numerical problem: maybe, zero is not zero, it's very near to zero. Regards, Alberto Santini ----------------------------- require(fPortfolio) require(tseries) assets <- c( "F.MI", "ENG.MI", "TIS.MI", "^SPMIB" ) f.mi <- get.hist.quote("F.MI", start="2006-09-03", end="2008-09-03", compression="w", quote="Close") eng.mi <- get.hist.quote("ENG.MI", start="2006-09-03", end="2008-09-03", compression="w", quote="Close") tis.mi <- get.hist.quote("TIS.MI", start="2006-09-03", end="2008-09-03", compression="w", quote="Close") spmib <- get.hist.quote("^SPMIB", start="2006-09-03", end="2008-09-03", compression="w", quote="Close") X <- cbind(f.mi[1:(length(f.mi)-1)], eng.mi[1:(length(eng.mi)-1)], tis.mi[1:(length(tis.mi)-1)], spmib[1:(length(spmib)-1)]) colnames(X) <- assets R <- as.timeSeries(returns(X)) # Spec = portfolioSpec(model = list(type = c("MV"), # estimator = c("mean", "cov"), tailRisk = list(), params = list()), # portfolio = list(weights = NULL, targetReturn = 0, # targetRisk = 0, targetAlpha = 0.05, riskFreeRate = NULL, # nFrontierPoints = 50), # solver = list(solver = c("quadprog"), trace = FALSE)) Spec = portfolioSpec() frontier <- portfolioFrontier(R, Spec, c("minW[1:nAssets]=0")) # weightsSlider(frontier) ptf <- [EMAIL PROTECTED](getTargetRisk(frontier)[,1])+1,]*100 ptf assets2 <- c( "ENG.MI", "^SPMIB" ) X2 <- cbind(eng.mi[1:(length(eng.mi)-1)], spmib[1:(length(spmib)-1)]) colnames(X2) <- assets2 R2 <- as.timeSeries(returns(X2)) frontier <- portfolioFrontier(R2, Spec, c("minW[1:nAssets]=0")) ptf <- [EMAIL PROTECTED](getTargetRisk(frontier)[,1])+1,]*100 ptf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/portfolio.optim-and-assets-with-weigth-equals-to-zero...-tp19289567p19299309.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.