conpa

CONPA

ConPA 2 is a complete frontend stack for an asset allocation application.

ConPA 2 is a single page with the following components: the asset search, the list of assets, the portfolio charts, the assets stats and the dashboard.

To fill the basket, the user needs to add an asset, using the search edit field: typing the name or the symbol of an asset, the autocomplete component suggests a few assets. When the user selects an asset, it is added to the basket, displaying the symbol.

In the meantime for the last asset added to the basket, the app provides the key statistics.

When the basket contains at least three assets, the basket is optimized, creating two portfolios: the first portfolio contains the optimal weights of the assets at the actual date; the second one contains the optimal weights of the portfolio as it was created one year ago (year to date). The performances of the portfolio created in the past are calculated and displayed.

Below basket and asset info, there is the dashboard. It contains the stats of all portfolios created by the users: last created portfolios, best/worst performing porfolios, high/low risk profile portfolios and high/low return profile portfolios.

There are two old videos about ConPA 1: welcome and tutorial.

Architecture

After reading the following paper [Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture] (http://addyosmani.com/largescalejavascript/), ConPA 2 is based on modules loosely coupled, using a pub/sub pattern to exchange information between the components.

The asset libraries are the following:

• Bootstrap - 3.0.0
• Typeahead - 2.3.2
• jQuery - 1.10.2
• Sparklines - 2.1.2
• Lo-Dash - 1.3.1
• jQuery Tiny Pub/Sub - 0.7

The app may evolve using Ractive.js.

Just in case the following libraries are in the radar:

• Datepicker for Bootstrap

• Depot.js localStorage wrapper

• Underscore.string - to format strings and numbers.

• A lightweight javascript date library - to format dates.

• A conditional AMD loader

assetSearch

• Description: It calls the Yahoo Finance autocompletion url, providing ten suggestions (symbol, name, type and market) to complete the string typed. It fills the input with the quote symbol.

• Tag: 'input'

• Route: http://autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc

• Event

  • change, fired when the user selects an item in the suggestion box.

assetList

• Description: It renders the list of the assets added to the basket. The user can delete an asset. When there are less than three assets in the basket, the reference date is reset to year-to-date.

• Tag: '#asset-list'

• Route: none

• Events

  • render.app.conpa, fired when an asset is deleted.

  • render.assetlist.conpa, catched when an asset is added to the basket.

assetStats

• Description: It renders the key statistics, in two columns, of the last asset in the basket. The header of the statistics is modified accordingly.

• Tags:

  • '#asset-stats-name'

  • '#asset-stats-list1'

  • '#asset-stats-list2'

• Route: /ConPA/getKeyStatistics

• Event

  • stats.asset.conpa, catched when an asset is added to the basket.

portfolioOptimization

• Description: It displays the optimal weights of the assets in the basket at two reference dates: today and the reference date (default is year to date). It draw two pie charts and a one bar chart related to the performance of the portfolio since the reference date until today.

• Tags:

  • '#basket-pie-chart'

  • '#basket-pie-refdate-label'

  • '#basket-pie-ytd-chart'

  • '#basket-performance-refdate-label'

  • '#basket-performance-ytd-chart'

• Routes:

  • /ConPA/getOptimalPortfolio

  • /ConPA/putPortfolioOnCRM

• Events

  • error.message.conpa, fired when the portfolio optimization fails.

  • crm.portfolio.conpa, fired when the portfolio is optimized.

  • clear.portfolio.conpa, catched when the assets in the basket are greater than two.

  • optimization.portfolio.conpa, catched when the assets in the basket are greater than two.

portfolioDashboard

• Description: It display the latest optimized portfolios and the best or the worst portfolios with respect to performance, risk and return.

• Tags:

  • '#latest-portfolios-list'

  • '#best-performing-portfolios-list'

  • '#worst-performing-portfolios-list'

  • '#lowprofile-risk-portfolios-list'

  • '#highprofile-risk-portfolios-list'

  • '#lowprofile-return-portfolios-list'

  • '#highprofile-return-portfolios-list'

• Routes:

  • /ConPA/getLastCreatedPortfolios

  • /ConPA/getBestPerformingPortfolios

  • /ConPA/getWorstPerformingPortfolios

  • /ConPA/getLowProfileRiskPortfolios

  • /ConPA/getHighProfileRiskPortfolios

  • /ConPA/getLowProfileReturnPortfolios

  • /ConPA/getHighProfileReturnPortfolios

• Events

  • render.app.conpa, fired when the user click on a row of the dashboard tables to load a stored portfolio.

  • render.dashboard.conpa, catched when the app renders.

portfolioCRM

• Description: It saves a portfolio in the backend.

• Tag: none

• Route: /ConPA/putPortfolioOnCRM

• Events

  • render.dashboard.conpa, fired when a new portfolio is saved to the backend.

  • crm.portfolio.conpa, catched when the portfolio is optimized to save it.

errorMessage

• Description: It displays an error message.

• Tag: '#message'

• Route: none

• Events

  • clear.message.conpa, catched to clear the message.

  • error.message.conpa, catched to display an error message.

appUtil

• string $.conpa.utils.rfc4122v4()

• string $.conpa.helpers.percentageFormatter(number)

• string $.conpa.helpers.hyphenFormatter(id)

• date $.conpa.dates.today()

• boolean $.conpa.dates.isToday(date)

• date $.conpa.dates.yearToDate()

• string $.conpa.dates.ymdDate(date)

model

{
    assets: [{
       id: uuid
       symbol: string
    }],

    refdate: date string
}

Todo

• Update charts labels when the the portfolio is reset.

• Add most used symbols tag cloud above the charts.

• Add user portfolios in local storage above latest portfolios.

• Update the labels in portfolio dashboard.

• Update the search field to the big one.

• Add the description to the symbol (maybe using jquery-handsontable).

• Add a route to aggregate the dashboard calls.

• Add volatility graphs below asset stats.

• Add the assets constraints.

• Add a tooltip to the ids with the assets of the portfolio in the dashboard.

• Check the top of the page on iPhone, because it seems there is a margin.

• Add default assets to the basket, if it is empty.

Installation

To install with npm:

npm install conpa

Tested with node 0.8.x.

The module adds the following routes to the express instance:

• /ConPA/getOptimalPortfolio

• /ConPA/getScriptOptimalPortfolio

• /ConPA/getKeyStatistics

• /ConPA/getImpliedVolatility

• /ConPA/getPortfolio

• /ConPA/putPortfolioOnCRM

• /ConPA/getLastCreatedPortfolios

• /ConPA/getBestPerformingPortfolios

• /ConPA/getWorstPerformingPortfolios

• /ConPA/getHighProfileRiskPortfolios

• /ConPA/getLowProfileRiskPortfolios

• /ConPA/getHighProfileReturnPortfolios

• /ConPA/getLowProfileReturnPortfolios

• /ConPA/getPortfolioCount

• /ConPA/getMostUsedAssets

In the examples directory there is a simple express configuration.

Notes

Before running ConPA, you need to configure the details of the persistence system. The portfolios are saved on a CouchDB instance. The configuration allows a live and testing system, you don't need to change the source code when the app is delivered to a live system.

Optionally, you may add a Rserve configuration (local or remote). If Rserve is not configured, ConPA uses a javascript implementation for the optimization.

For instance,

crm: {
    liveDomain: "x.x.x",
    liveUrl: "http://key1:[e-mail]",
    liveDb: "myLiveDBName",
    testingUrl: "http://key2:[e-mail]",
    testingDb: "myTestingDBName",
    design: "designName",
},
rserve: {
    host: "myHost",
    port: "myPort",
    user: "myUser",
    password: "myPassword"
}

ConPA Sequence Diagram.

Methods

configure(app, express, config)

It creates an optimal portfolio. If config is defined, the method call a Rserve instance, otherwise a native implementation is used.

• app an instance of the express.HTTPServer, created with createServer().

• express an instance of the express module.

• config

  • pubdir folder for the frontend files (default "/public").

  • crm

    • liveDomain url for the live domain.

    • liveUrl url for the live instance, eventually with the credentials.

    • liveDb name of live instance.

    • testingUrl url for the testing instance, eventually with the credentials.

    • testingDb name of testing instance.

    • design name of design document.

  • rserve

    • host hostname or ip address of R instance.

    • port port of Rserve instance.

    • user username for remote connection of Rserve instance.

    • password password for remote connection of Rserve instance.