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It would also be useful if there were Mathematica-specific features included in the Benchmark. Right now the internal benchmarks entirely target general and universal sorts of operations that can be compared to other softwares - things like...
http://jonathankinlay.com/2017/01/copulas-risk-management/ Copulas in Risk Management on Page 4 has: SP500returns = Log[Drop[SP500prices[[All, 2]], 1]] - Log[Drop[SP500prices[[All, 2]], -1]]; NASDAQreturns = ...
Thank you for the excellent responses. I could not figure out how to use all the plot formatting I wanted with Graphics (in particular log scale and grid lines within the plot). However, for the record, I did end up figuring out something that worked...