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Learn how to calculate Value at Risk (VaR) to effectively assess financial risks in portfolios, using historical, variance-covariance, and Monte Carlo methods.

This brings us to the second way to calculate the value of your time: Expected Value Methods. These calculations are based on the value you expect a given hour of work to create in the long-run.

Key Takeaways To calculate a portfolio's expected return, you need to compute the expected return of each of your holdings and its weight.

How-To Estimate Future Total Return Calculating total return after the fact is simple. There's money to be made in accurately estimating expected future total returns in the stock market.

Calculating the future expected stock price can be useful to predict where certain stocks are headed, but no single equation can be used universally.