Calculate VaR for portfolios of stocks in less than 10 lines of code, use different types of VaR (historical, gaussian, Cornish-Fisher). If you've already seen our basic VaR tutorial for excel, this tutorial will blow you away.
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Basic VAR Tutorial for Excel (Lots of explanations and custom animations for those new to the concept of risk management and VaR/CVaR):
http://quantbros.com/calculating-var-and-cvar/