risk-metrics-calculation

# Risk Metrics Calculation Comprehensive risk measurement toolkit for portfolio management, including Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, and drawdown analysis. ## When to Use This Skill - Measuring portfolio risk - Implementing risk limits - Building risk dashboards - Calculating risk-adjusted returns - Setting position sizes - Regulatory reporting ## Core Concepts ### 1. Risk Metric Categories | Category | Metrics | Use Case | | ----------------- | --------------- | -------------------- | | **Volatility** | Std Dev, Beta | General risk | | **Tail Risk** | VaR, CVaR | Extreme losses | | **Drawdown** | Max DD, Calmar | Capital preservation | | **Risk-Adjusted** | Sharpe, Sortino | Performance | ### 2. Time Horizons ``` Intraday: Minute/hourly VaR for day traders Daily: Standard risk reporting Weekly: Rebalancing decisions Monthly: Performance attribution Annual: Strategic allocation ``` ## Detailed patterns and worked examples Detailed pattern documentation lives in `references/details.md`. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient. ## Best Practices ### Do's - **Use multiple metrics** - No single metric captures all risk - **Consider tail risk** - VaR isn't enough, use CVaR - **Rolling analysis** - Risk changes over time - **Stress test** - Historical and hypothetical - **Document assumptions** - Distribution, lookback, etc. ### Don'ts - **Don't rely on VaR alone** - Underestimates tail risk - **Don't assume normality** - Returns are fat-tailed - **Don't ignore correlation** - Increases in stress - **Don't use short lookbacks** - Miss regime changes - **Don't forget transaction costs** - Affects realized risk