Calculating cumulative returns with pandas dataframe

Question

I have this dataframe

Poloniex_DOGE_BTC   Poloniex_XMR_BTC    Daily_rets  perc_ret
172 0.006085    -0.000839   0.003309    0
173 0.006229    0.002111    0.005135         


        

Answer 1

you just cannot simply add them all by using cumsum

for example, if you have array [1.1, 1.1], you supposed to have 2.21, not 2.2

import numpy as np

# daily return:
df['daily_return'] = df['close'].pct_change()

# calculate cumluative return
df['cumluative_return'] = np.exp(np.log1p(df['daily_return']).cumsum())