adding data range for VaR

openbb_terminal/common/quantitative_analysis/qa_view.py

@@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ def display_var(
     adjusted_var: bool = False,
     student_t: bool = False,
     percentile: float = 0.999,
+    data_range: int = 0,
     portfolio: bool = False,
 ):
     """Displays VaR of dataframe
@@ -1013,12 +1014,20 @@ def display_var(
         If one should use the student-t distribution
     percentile: int
         var percentile
+    data_range: int
+        Number of rows you want to use VaR over
     portfolio: bool
         If the data is a portfolio
     """
-    var_list, hist_var_list = qa_model.get_var(
-        data, use_mean, adjusted_var, student_t, percentile, portfolio
-    )
+
+    if data_range > 0:
+        var_list, hist_var_list = qa_model.get_var(
+            data[-data_range:], use_mean, adjusted_var, student_t, percentile, portfolio
+        )
+    else:
+        var_list, hist_var_list = qa_model.get_var(
+            data, use_mean, adjusted_var, student_t, percentile, portfolio
+        )
 
     str_hist_label = "Historical VaR:"
 

openbb_terminal/stocks/quantitative_analysis/qa_controller.py

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 from openbb_terminal.rich_config import console, MenuText
 from openbb_terminal.stocks.quantitative_analysis.factors_view import capm_view
 
+# pylint: disable=C0302
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -800,6 +802,18 @@ def call_var(self, other_args: List[str]):
                 Percentile used for VaR calculations, for example input 99.9 equals a 99.9 Percent VaR
             """,
         )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "-d",
+            "--datarange",
+            action="store",
+            dest="data_range",
+            type=int,
+            default=0,
+            help="""
+                Number of rows you want to use VaR over,
+                ex: if you are using days, 30 would show VaR for the last 30 TRADING days
+            """,
+        )
         ns_parser = self.parse_known_args_and_warn(parser, other_args)
         if ns_parser:
             if ns_parser.adjusted and ns_parser.student_t:
@@ -812,6 +826,7 @@ def call_var(self, other_args: List[str]):
                     ns_parser.adjusted,
                     ns_parser.student_t,
                     ns_parser.percentile / 100,
+                    ns_parser.data_range,
                     False,
                 )