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madpak2
Oct 20, 2020Copper Contributor
Excel Solver
I am wanting to use Excel Solver to find find the weights, standard deviation, and variance at a specific return%. When I go and use solver and click solve the parts in yellow beside the target retur...
HansVogelaar
Oct 20, 2020MVP
There must be something missing - all other weights are set to 0, so all weighted calculations will return 0 regardless of the values in Q3:Z3.
madpak2
Oct 20, 2020Copper Contributor
I went and changed the weights in q3:z3 to having nothing in them and I am still not able to have any of the information changed.
- HansVogelaarOct 20, 2020MVP
Of course not - all results will still be 0.
- madpak2Oct 20, 2020Copper ContributorThen how do I get it to solve for the weights, standard deviation, and variance at a specific return%? I got it to work on another document with just 4 stocks.
- HansVogelaarOct 20, 2020MVP
I have no idea.