ON AN UPPER GAIN BOUND FOR STRATEGIES WITH CONSTANT AND PROPORTIONAL NUMBER OF ASSETS TRADED Cover Image

ON AN UPPER GAIN BOUND FOR STRATEGIES WITH CONSTANT AND PROPORTIONAL NUMBER OF ASSETS TRADED
ON AN UPPER GAIN BOUND FOR STRATEGIES WITH CONSTANT AND PROPORTIONAL NUMBER OF ASSETS TRADED

Author(s): Rafał Łochowski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: trading strategy; transaction costs; truncated variation; AR(1) process; Wiener process; Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; random walk; the Black-Scholes model

Summary/Abstract: We introduce general formulas for the upper bound of gain obtained from any finite-time trading strategy in discrete and continuous time models. We consider strategies with constant number of assets traded and strategies with proportional number of assets traded. Unfortunately, the estimates obtained in the discrete case become trivial in the continuous case, hence we introduce transaction costs. This leads to the interesting estimates in terms of the so called truncated variation of the price series. We apply the obtained estimates in specific cases of financial time series.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 29-38
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English