1. You want to form a portfolio between two stocks: Canadian Tire and the Apple Inc. Download the monthly price data from Yahoo! Finance pages for Canadian Tire (ticker symbol: CTC- A.TO) and Apple (ticker symbol: AAPL) from November 1, 2015 to November 1, 2020. Calculate the monthly holding period returns for each stock in Excel using the split-adjusted prices that Yahoo provides1. Use these data and Excel to answer the following questions:

b. Using these values, calculate the portfolio return and standard deviation for various weights in Canadian Tire and Apple:

1. Calculate the portfolio return and standard deviation for weights with alternately 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%,...., 95%, 100% weight in Apple and the rest in Canadian Tire.

2. Graph this portfolio return and standard deviation for all possible portfolios on a graph with Return on the vertical axis and Standard deviation on the horizontal

   axis. (hint: Use Scatter Plot type of graph)

3. Calculate the Canadian Tires weight in the portfolio that gives the minimum

   standard deviation: show this portfolio on a graph built above.