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convert2monthly

Aggregate timetable data to monthly periodicity

Since R2021a

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Syntax

TT2 = convert2monthly(TT1)
TT2 = convert2monthly(TT1,Name,Value)

Description

TT2 = convert2monthly(TT1) aggregates data (for example, data recorded daily or weekly) to monthly periodicity.

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TT2 = convert2monthly(TT1,Name,Value) uses additional options specified by one or more name-value arguments.

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Examples

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Apply separate aggregation methods to related variables in a timetable while maintaining consistency between aggregated results when converting to a monthly periodicity. You can use convert2monthly to aggregate both intra-daily data and aggregated daily data. These methods result in equivalent monthly aggregates. Lastly, you can aggregate results on a specific day of each month (for example, the 15th), rather than the default end of the month.

Load a timetable (DataTimeTable) of simulated stock price data and corresponding logarithmic returns. The data stored in DataTimeTable is recorded at various times throughout the day on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) business days from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. The timetable DataTimeTable also includes NYSE business calendar awareness. If your timetable does not account for nonbusiness days (weekends, holidays, and market closures), add business calendar awareness by using addBusinessCalendar first.

load("SimulatedStockSeries.mat","DataTimeTable");
head(DataTimeTable)
            Time            Price     Log_Return
    ____________________    ______    __________

    01-Jan-2018 11:52:48       100     -0.025375
    01-Jan-2018 13:23:13    101.14      0.011336
    01-Jan-2018 14:45:09     101.5     0.0035531
    01-Jan-2018 15:30:30    100.15      -0.01339
    02-Jan-2018 10:43:37     99.72    -0.0043028
    03-Jan-2018 10:02:21    100.11     0.0039033
    03-Jan-2018 11:22:37    103.96      0.037737
    03-Jan-2018 13:42:27    107.05       0.02929

First aggregate intra-daily prices and returns to daily periodicity. To maintain consistency between prices and returns, for any given trading day aggregate prices by reporting the last recorded price using "lastvalue" and aggregate returns by summing all logarithmic returns using "sum".

DTTDaily = convert2daily(DataTimeTable,Aggregation=["lastvalue" "sum"]);
head(DTTDaily)
       Time        Price     Log_Return
    ___________    ______    __________

    01-Jan-2018    100.15     -0.023876
    02-Jan-2018     99.72    -0.0043028
    03-Jan-2018    105.57      0.057008
    04-Jan-2018    109.01      0.032065
    05-Jan-2018    110.69      0.015294
    06-Jan-2018    110.48     -0.001899
    07-Jan-2018    113.83      0.029872
    08-Jan-2018    116.41      0.022412

Use convert2monthly to aggregate the data to a monthly periodicity and compare the results of two different approaches. The first approach computes monthly results by aggregating the daily aggregates and the second approach computes monthly results by directly aggregating the original intra-daily data. Note that although convert2monthly reports results on the last business day of each month by default, you can report monthly results on the 15th of each month by using the optional name-value pair argument 'EndOfMonthDay'.

DTTMonthly1 = convert2monthly(DTTDaily,Aggregation=["lastvalue" "sum"], ...
    EndOfMonthDay=15);  % Daily to monthly
DTTMonthly2 = convert2monthly(DataTimeTable,Aggregation=["lastvalue" "sum"], ...
    EndOfMonthDay=15);  % Intra-daily to monthly

head(DTTMonthly1)
       Time        Price     Log_Return
    ___________    ______    __________

    15-Jan-2018    114.72      0.11195 
    15-Feb-2018    117.27     0.021985 
    15-Mar-2018     105.3     -0.10767 
    15-Apr-2018     106.4     0.010392 
    15-May-2018    100.29     -0.05914 
    15-Jun-2018     98.72    -0.015778 
    15-Jul-2018    103.18     0.044187 
    15-Aug-2018    108.07     0.046304 

head(DTTMonthly2)
       Time        Price     Log_Return
    ___________    ______    __________

    15-Jan-2018    114.72      0.11195 
    15-Feb-2018    117.27     0.021985 
    15-Mar-2018     105.3     -0.10767 
    15-Apr-2018     106.4     0.010392 
    15-May-2018    100.29     -0.05914 
    15-Jun-2018     98.72    -0.015778 
    15-Jul-2018    103.18     0.044187 
    15-Aug-2018    108.07     0.046304

Notice that the results of the two approaches are the same. For months in which the 15th is not an NYSE trading day, the function reports results on the previous business day.

Open Live Script

You can apply custom aggregation methods using function handles. Specify a function handle to aggregate related variables in a timetable while maintaining consistency between aggregated results when converting from a daily to a monthly periodicity.

Load a timetable (DataTimeTable) of simulated stock price data and corresponding logarithmic returns. The data stored in DataTimeTable is recorded at various times throughout the day on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) business days from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. The timetable DataTimeTable also includes NYSE business calendar awareness. If your timetable does not account for nonbusiness days (weekends, holidays, and market closures), add business calendar awareness by using addBusinessCalendar first.

load("SimulatedStockSeries.mat","DataTimeTable");
head(DataTimeTable)
            Time            Price     Log_Return
    ____________________    ______    __________

    01-Jan-2018 11:52:48       100     -0.025375
    01-Jan-2018 13:23:13    101.14      0.011336
    01-Jan-2018 14:45:09     101.5     0.0035531
    01-Jan-2018 15:30:30    100.15      -0.01339
    02-Jan-2018 10:43:37     99.72    -0.0043028
    03-Jan-2018 10:02:21    100.11     0.0039033
    03-Jan-2018 11:22:37    103.96      0.037737
    03-Jan-2018 13:42:27    107.05       0.02929

First add another variable to DataTimeTable that contains the simple (proportional) returns associated with the prices in DataTimeTable and examine the first few rows.

DataTimeTable.Simple_Return = exp(DataTimeTable.Log_Return) - 1;    % Log returns to simple returns
head(DataTimeTable)
            Time            Price     Log_Return    Simple_Return
    ____________________    ______    __________    _____________

    01-Jan-2018 11:52:48       100     -0.025375      -0.025056  
    01-Jan-2018 13:23:13    101.14      0.011336         0.0114  
    01-Jan-2018 14:45:09     101.5     0.0035531      0.0035594  
    01-Jan-2018 15:30:30    100.15      -0.01339        -0.0133  
    02-Jan-2018 10:43:37     99.72    -0.0043028     -0.0042936  
    03-Jan-2018 10:02:21    100.11     0.0039033       0.003911  
    03-Jan-2018 11:22:37    103.96      0.037737       0.038458  
    03-Jan-2018 13:42:27    107.05       0.02929       0.029723

Create a function to aggregate simple returns and compute the monthly aggregates. To maintain consistency between prices and returns, for any given month, aggregate prices by reporting the last recorded price by using "lastvalue" and report logarithmic returns by summing all intervening logarithmic returns by using "sum".

Notice that the aggregation function for simple returns operates along the first (row) dimension and omits missing data (NaNs). For more information on custom aggregation functions, see timetable and retime. When aggregation methods are a mix of supported methods and user-supplied functions, the Aggregation optional name-value argument must be specified as a cell vector of methods enclosed in curly braces.

f = @(x)(prod(1 + x,1,"omitnan") - 1);  % Aggregate simple returns
DTTMonthly = convert2monthly(DataTimeTable,Aggregation={'lastvalue' 'sum' f});
head(DTTMonthly)
       Time        Price     Log_Return    Simple_Return
    ___________    ______    __________    _____________

    31-Jan-2018    117.35      0.13462          0.1441  
    28-Feb-2018    113.52    -0.033182       -0.032637  
    31-Mar-2018    110.74    -0.024794       -0.024489  
    30-Apr-2018    105.58    -0.047716       -0.046596  
    31-May-2018     97.88    -0.075727        -0.07293  
    30-Jun-2018     99.29     0.014303        0.014405  
    31-Jul-2018    102.72     0.033962        0.034545  
    31-Aug-2018    124.99      0.19623          0.2168

Input Arguments

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Data to aggregate to a monthly periodicity, specified as a timetable.

Each variable can be a numeric vector (univariate series) or numeric matrix (multivariate series).

Note

  • NaNs indicate missing values.

  • Timestamps must be in ascending or descending order.

By default, all days are business days. If your timetable does not account for nonbusiness days (weekends, holidays, and market closures), add business calendar awareness by using addBusinessCalendar first. For example, the following command adds business calendar logic to include only NYSE business days.

TT = addBusinessCalendar(TT);

Data Types: timetable

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Example: TT2 = convert2monthly(TT1,'Aggregation',["lastvalue" "sum"])

Aggregation method for TT1 defining how to aggregate data over business days in an intra-month or inter-day periodicity, specified as one of the following methods, a string vector of methods, or a length numVariables cell vector of methods, where numVariables is the number of variables in TT1.

  • "sum" — Sum the values in each year or day.

  • "mean" — Calculate the mean of the values in each year or day.

  • "prod" — Calculate the product of the values in each year or day.

  • "min" — Calculate the minimum of the values in each year or day.

  • "max" — Calculate the maximum of the values in each year or day.

  • "firstvalue" — Use the first value in each year or day.

  • "lastvalue" — Use the last value in each year or day.

  • @customfcn — A custom aggregation method that accepts a table variable and returns a numeric scalar (for univariate series) or row vector (for multivariate series). The function must accept empty inputs [].

If you specify a single method, convert2monthly applies the specified method to all time series in TT1. If you specify a string vector or cell vector aggregation, convert2monthly applies aggregation(j) to TT1(:,j); convert2monthly applies each aggregation method one at a time (for more details, see retime). For example, consider a daily timetable representing TT1 with three variables.

         Time         AAA       BBB            CCC       
      ___________    ______    ______    ________________
      01-Jan-2018    100.00    200.00    300.00    400.00
      02-Jan-2018    100.03    200.06    300.09    400.12
      03-Jan-2018    100.07    200.14    300.21    400.28
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      31-Jan-2018    114.65     229.3    343.95    458.60
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      28-Feb-2018    129.19    258.38    387.57    516.76
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      31-Mar-2018    162.93    325.86    488.79    651.72
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      30-Apr-2018    171.72    343.44    515.16    686.88
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      31-May-2018    201.24    402.48    603.72    804.96
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          .             .         .         .         .
      30-Jun-2018    223.22    446.44    669.66    892.88
The corresponding default monthly results representing TT2 (in which all days are business days and the 'lastvalue' is reported on the last business day of each month) are as follows.
         Time         AAA       BBB            CCC       
      ___________    ______    ______    ________________
      31-Jan-2018    114.65    229.30    343.95    458.60
      28-Feb-2018    129.19    258.38    387.57    516.76
      31-Mar-2018    162.93    325.86    488.79    651.72
      30-Apr-2018    171.72    343.44    515.16    686.88
      31-May-2018    201.24    402.48    603.72    804.96
      30-Jun-2018    223.22    446.44    669.66    892.88

All methods omit missing data (NaNs) in direct aggregation calculations on each variable. However, for situations in which missing values appear in the first row of TT1, missing values can also appear in the aggregated results TT2. To address missing data, write and specify a custom aggregation method (function handle) that supports missing data.

Data Types: char | string | cell | function_handle

Intra-day aggregation method for TT1, specified as an aggregation method, a string vector of methods, or a length numVariables cell vector of methods. For more details on supported methods and behaviors, see the 'Aggregation' name-value argument.

Data Types: char | string | cell | function_handle

Day of the month that ends months, specified as a scalar integer with value 1 to 31. For months with fewer days than EndOfMonthDay, convert2monthly reports aggregation results on the last business day of the month.

Data Types: double

Output Arguments

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Monthly data, returned as a timetable. The time arrangement of TT1 and TT2 are the same.

If a variable of TT1 has no business-day records during a month within the sampling time span, convert2monthly returns a NaN for that variable and month in TT2.

If the first month (month1) of TT1 contains at least one business day, the first date in TT2 is the last business date of month1. Otherwise, the first date in TT2 is the next end-of-month business date of TT1.

If the last month (monthT) of TT1 contains at least one business day, the last date in TT2 is the last business date of monthT. Otherwise, the last date in TT2 is the previous end-of-month business date of TT1.

Version History

Introduced in R2021a

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