Optimal lazy portfolio rebalancing calculator (in Rust)
$ rebalance-app --help
rebalance-app 1.2.0
Alberto Leal (github.com/dashed) <mailforalberto@gmail.com>
Optimal lazy portfolio rebalancing calculator
USAGE:
rebalance-app [OPTIONS] <contribution> --portfolio <FILE> --targets <FILE>
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-p, --portfolio <FILE> Sets a portfolio file
-i, --portfolio_value_index <INDEX> Sets CSV index of the portfolio value
-t, --targets <FILE> Sets a targets file
ARGS:
<contribution> Sets the contribution amount
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Set up
targets.csv. Example: example/targets.csv -
Set up
portfolio.csv. Usually you export this from your favourite broker. Example: example/portfolio.csv -
Run:
rebalance-app --portfolio example/portfolio.csv --targets example/targets.csv 5000
By default, rebalance-app assumes the values of your assets in your portfolio CSV file is at the 2nd column (i.e. index 1). For example:
Bond fund, roi %, ticker symbol, $16500.00
TIPS fund, roi %, ticker symbol, $6500.00
Domestic Stock ETF, roi %, ticker symbol, $43500.00
International Stock ETF, roi %, ticker symbol, $33500.00
You can adjust this using the -i flag:
rebalance-app -i 3 --portfolio example/portfolio.csv --targets example/targets.csv 5000
Rationale: Rather than rebalance your portfolio internally, add/remove money such that your asset targets % are achieved as close as possible.
See this article on rebalancing: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Rebalancing
Based on:
How it works:
Source: http://optimalrebalancing.tk/explanation.html
Step 1: Calculate the fractional deviations
Define the fractional deviation f of an asset to be a/t − 1, where t is the asset's target allocation and a is its actual portion of the portfolio. Calculate f for each asset. f will be negative for underweighted assets and positive for overweighted assets. Note that a denotes the portion relative to the final total portfolio value; this is obtained by adding the contribution amount to the original total portfolio value.
Step 2: Add money to asset(s) with lowest fractional deviation
Add money to the asset(s) with least f until they are tied with the asset(s) with the next-least f. The money added to each asset must be proportional to that asset's target allocation so that the minimum f's increase in synchrony. Repeat this until the contribution amount is exhausted. If the assets are pre-sorted according to f, this process can be implemented such that its running time increases linearly with the number of assets.
cargo fmt
GPL-3.0+.