I got confused when I looked at the example you put:
Stocks = {1.0190, 1.0383. 0.9982, 1,.0128, 1.0133, 0.9963, 0.9999, 1.0248}
Is that the return of each stock in time t + 1? If this is the case, then you should instead work with
Stocks = {0.0190, 0.0383. -0.0018...}
Then you just...