In a class of solving unconstrained optimization problems, the conjugate gradient method has been proved to be efficient by researchers' due to it's smaller storage requirements and computational cost. Then, a class of penalty algorithms based on three-term conjugate gradient methods was developed and extend to and solution of an unconstrained minimization portfolio management problems, where the objective function is a piecewise quadratic polynomial. By implementing the proposed algorithm to

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... lve some selected unconstrained optimization problems, resulted in improvement in the total number of iterations and CPU time. It was shown that this algorithm is promising.