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Out of curiosity: How do you test your sheets? I feel like I can arrive at such a sheet over a few days of reading, but unsure how I'd test I'm doing the right
by temp_praneshp 4y ago
Out of curiosity: How do you test your sheets? I feel like I can arrive at such a sheet over a few days of reading, but unsure how I'd test I'm doing the right things (since there isn't a tool or a combination of tools that can act as oracle)
- maire 4y agoI used ETFs (and not stocks) to simplify the test. I was mostly looking for correlations of different investments across different scenarios. I then looked at severe market downturns to see how the correlations changed. As you can imagine - when there is a severe market drop, most investments are highly correlated to the S&P. The most negative correlation I could get was medium term bond ETFs. Short term bonds were still highly correlated and I am not sure why. The dot com bust was particularly interesting because each segment dropped at different times. Telecom dropped first, then tech. It took about a year for the drop to hit mid cap. In comparison - the 2008 crash hit everything quickly. Also - lately I have been using the backtesting tools in TOS. As I said earlier, this only works for stocks and not ETFs.
- temp_praneshp 4y agogotcha, thanks for answering!
- maire 4y agoIf you are using google sheets you can use ycharts to pull in the dividend data. Here is my calculation to get 1 year of dividends. =query(importhtml(concatenate("https://ycharts.com/companies/",$A4,"/dividend"),"table",0),$J$2 https://ycharts.com/companies/",$A4,"/dividend"),"table",0),...) where $J$2 is ="select Col6 where Col1 > date '"&TEXT(I2,"yyyy-mm-dd")&"' LIMIT 12"