Go to any Finance website, and find daily historical prices (for the past one month) of any two stocks you chose.
Calculate daily HPR of each stock for the past one month
Calculate expected rate of return, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation of each stock. Which stock will you select? Why?
Calculate correlation coefficient of these two stocks. How are these two stocks correlated? Will you include these two stocks in your portfolio? Why?
Assume you invest 50% money on each stock, calculate expected rate of return, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation of the portfolio. Does this portfolio outperform individual stock?