Introduction

The aim of this project is to prepare, evaluate and analyse stock market data and to recommend an optimal portfolio consisting of two stocks. You have been assigned three stocks, all three must be included in the analysis which

works towards your recommendation of a final optimal portfolio. The project requires a deep understanding of

both the statistics and the mathematics components of this unit. It is recommended that you work on this on a

weekly basis.

YOU MUST USE THE STOCKS ASSIGNED TO YOU. Any deviation from the assigned stocks will results in a grade of

zero.

Refer to the rubric at the end of this document to understand how this assessment will be graded. In particular, note

that all figures need to be numbered and labelled, and you need to include all the steps to involved with arriving

at each of your answers.

Your final report should be a pdf document. An RMarkdown document to get you started is available on the unit

Blackboard site. Show all of your coding by keeping echo $=$ TRUE. Make sure to update your name and student ID

in the YAML of the document.

You are NOT ALLOWED to engage any AI$-$assistive platforms to complete this assessments, unless you are told

otherwise $($in $2$ questions below$).$