Mean–Variance Optimal Adaptive Execution

Abstract

Electronic trading of equities and other securities makes heavy use of ‘arrival price’ algorithms that balance the market impact cost of rapid execution against the volatility risk of slow execution. In the standard formulation, mean–variance optimal trading strategies are static: they do not modify the execution speed in response to price motions observed during trading. We show that substantial improvement is possible by using dynamic trading strategies and that the improvement is larger for large initial positions.

We develop a technique for computing optimal dynamic strategies to any desired degree of precision. The asset price process is observed on a discrete tree with an arbitrary number of levels. We introduce a novel dynamic programming technique in which the control variables are not only the shares traded at each time step but also the maximum expected cost for the remainder of the program; the value function is the variance of the remaining program. The resulting adaptive strategies are ‘aggressive-in-the-money’: they accelerate the execution when the price moves in the trader's favor, spending parts of the trading gains to reduce risk.     

Optimal portfolio execution under cointegrated vector autoregressive systems

Abstract

In this paper, an optimal portfolio execution problem under price model which exhibits cointegration behaviour is proposed. The proposed problem is formulated as a quadratic programming problem. With different statistical procedures and parameter estimation methods, employed on real market financial data, the four portfolios are constructed with which, computational study is performed. It is shown that the trading strategies constructed out of portfolios with cointegrated price dynamics show significant reduction in execution cost.     

Chance and necessity in sociological theory

This paper proposes a mathematical model of financial markets as networks. The model examines the effect of network structure on market behavior (price volatility and trading volume). In the model, investors are arrayed in various network configurations through which they gather information to make trading decisions. The basic network considered is a chain graph with two parameters, number of investors (n) and the length of time in which information is transmitted (k). Closed‐form expressions for price volatility and expected trading volume are provided. The model is generalized to more complex networks, focusing on the hub‐and‐spoke network. The network configurations analyzed do not represent the real (and unknown) communication network among investors, but predictions from the model are consistent with price and volume patterns observed in sociological and economic research on financial markets. The main result is that network structure alone influences price volatility and expected trading volume even though investors are homogeneous and the information introduced into the system is unbiased and random. This result suggests that the structure of the real communication network among investors may influence market behavior.     

Rebalancing Multiple Assets with Mutual Price Impact

We find asymptotically optimal trading policies for long-term investors with constant relative risk aversion, in a multiple-assets market, where expected returns and covariances are constant, and the execution price of each asset is linear in the trading intensities of all assets. Trading toward the frictionless target is optimal, when the current portfolio differs from the target by a principal portfolio—an eigenvector of the inverse impact matrix times the covariance matrix. Optimal policies approach the frictionless target along nonlinear, power-shaped paths, trading faster in more liquid directions, while tolerating wider oscillations along less liquid directions.     

机构投资者的最优变现策略

在投资、变现等大宗交易过程中,资产交易价格与交易策略密切相关,因此,交易的完成过程需要很高的技巧.文章讨论了机构投资者的最优变现策略问题,假设证券价格服从几何布朗运动,以均值方差效用为目标函数,得到了最优变现策略所满足的二阶微分方程,并由差分法得到其数值解.最后,由参数的敏感性分析知:最优变现策略与瞬时冲击、市场波动率及风险厌恶系数等参数有关,但与永久冲击无关,且最优变现策略对市场波动率和瞬时冲击的变化较敏感.     

大额资产清仓的自动化交易策略

市场的机构投资者经常需要清仓手中持有的大额资产, 因此清仓的交易策略成为了关心的问题. 以工商银行的股票为例,给出适用于计算机执行的自动化清仓策略. 首先将高频的工商银行股票历史数据在每个交易日分别划分出48个交易期, 将问题简化为处理每个交易日交易期的数据. 在此基础上, 综合考虑用神经网络模拟预测清仓时股票价格随时间下降的风险和用信息流理论模型衡量的价格冲击和交易时刻, 并通过优化模型得到清仓持续的交易日天数. 此后, 再制定出每个交易日的具体自动化交易策略.在制定日内交易策略 时, 首先用神经网络对交易时刻做出预测, 然后综合考虑使用 VWAP 预测出的交易量和通过 Kalman 滤波方法修正过的期权定价公式预测出的各时刻股票的初始价格, 最终给出详细的交易策略及交易的成本.     

Incorporating order-flow into optimal execution

We provide an explicit closed-form strategy for an investor who executes a large order when market order-flow from all agents, including the investor’s own trades, has a permanent price impact. The strategy is found in closed-form when the permanent and temporary price impacts are linear in the market’s and investor’s rates of trading. We do this under very general assumptions about the stochastic process followed by the order-flow of the market. The optimal strategy consists of an Almgren–Chriss execution strategy adjusted by a weighted-average of the future expected net order-flow (given by the difference of the market’s rate of buy and sell market orders) over the execution trading horizon and proportional to the ratio of permanent to temporary linear impacts. We use historical data to calibrate the model to Nasdaq traded stocks and use simulations to show how the strategy performs.     

Modelling Asset Prices for Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading

ABSTRACT

Algorithmic trading (AT) and high-frequency (HF) trading, which are responsible for over 70% of US stocks trading volume, have greatly changed the microstructure dynamics of tick-by-tick stock data. In this article, we employ a hidden Markov model to examine how the intraday dynamics of the stock market have changed and how to use this information to develop trading strategies at high frequencies. In particular, we show how to employ our model to submit limit orders to profit from the bid–ask spread, and we also provide evidence of how HF traders may profit from liquidity incentives (liquidity rebates). We use data from February 2001 and February 2008 to show that while in 2001 the intraday states with the shortest average durations (waiting time between trades) were also the ones with very few trades, in 2008 the vast majority of trades took place in the states with the shortest average durations. Moreover, in 2008, the states with the shortest durations have the smallest price impact as measured by the volatility of price innovations.     

Concentrated Equilibrium and Intraday Patterns in Financial Markets

Abstract

We introduce endogenous participation of market makers into a Kyle-type model with long-lived asymmetric information. In our model with plausible parameter values, the trading volume and price volatility show a U-shaped intraday pattern, often observed in actual financial markets. It will be shown that the pattern is caused not only by the trading behaviour of liquidity traders but also by that of market makers. Our findings shed new light on the stylized fact of the trade concentration at the opening and closing periods.     

金融系统的非线性分析:交易量对股价波动的非线性影响

如何研究股价波动和成交量之间的关系一直是金融系统研究中感兴趣的话题.Lamoureux 和 Lastrapes 认为选择日交易量度量每天流入市场的信息量是合理的,但他们假定交易量对波动率的影响是线性的.提出部分非线性GARCH模型分析交易量对股票市场波动率的影响,基于GARCH模型局部线性化非参数似然估计方法,对中国证券市场股票价格和交易量数据进行实证研究.结果表明,交易量对股价波动的影响具有显著的非线性性.     

基于元胞自动机的股市模拟及分析——投资者心理和股票交易量

建立了描述投资者心理和股票交易量的元胞自动机模型.综合零邻居、Von Neumann和Moore三种邻居形式制定不同的规则,用模糊隶属度函数刻画投资者的选择心理.模拟结果表明:自信程度系数与绝对总交易量之间呈现稳定的"倒U形"结构;信息交流程度对股市活跃程度有影响;投资者数目对市场活跃程度起关键作用.     

注意力视角下媒体报道对股价的影响模型研究

鉴于中国A股市场个人投资者比例相对较高但其理性程度相对较低的实际情况,在拓展Tetlock模型的基础上构建了一个两资产三阶段的理性期望模型。研究发现:首先,被报道股票的价格受到注意力效应的影响,存在正向注意力溢价;其次,注意力交易者对被报道股票的交易量在媒体报道后放大,且存在买卖不平衡性;最后,作为对有限理性的补偿,注意力受媒体报道的影响程度越高,其收益越低。论文在统一的分析框架之内考察了媒体报道对缓解信息不对称和引发投资者注意力效应两方面的影响,有助于在理论上为进一步探索媒体报道对股票市场的影响机理、在实践中为监管层更好地利用媒体力量促进股市健康发展提供理论启示。     

A model for optimal execution of atomic orders

Atomic Orders are the basic elements of any algorithm for automated trading in electronic stock exchanges. The main concern in their execution is achieving the most efficient price. We propose two optimal strategies for the execution of atomic orders based on minimization of impact and volatility costs. The first considered strategy is based on a relatively simple nonlinear optimization model while the second allows re-optimization at some time point within a given execution time. In both cases a combination of market and limit orders is used. The key innovation in our approach is the introduction of a Fill Probability function which allows a combination of market and limit orders in the two optimization models we are discussing in this paper. Under certain conditions the objective functions of both considered problems are convex and therefore standard optimization tools can be applied. The efficiency of the resulting strategies is tested against two benchmarks representing common market practice on a representative sample of real trading data.     

Optimal execution with weighted impact functions: a quadratic programming approach

In this paper, we develop optimal trading strategies for a risk averse investor by minimizing the expected cost and the risk of execution. Here we consider a law of motion for price which uses a convex combination of temporary and permanent market impact. In the special case of unconstrained problem for a risk neutral investor, we obtain a closed form solution for optimal trading strategies by using dynamic programming. For a general problem, we use a quadratic programming approach to get approximate dynamic optimal trading strategies. Further, numerical examples of optimal execution strategies are provided for illustration purposes.     

Mean–variance optimal trading problem subject to stochastic dominance constraints with second order autoregressive price dynamics

The efficient modeling of execution price path of an asset to be traded is an important aspect of the optimal trading problem. In this paper an execution price path based on the second order autoregressive process is proposed. The proposed price path is a generalization of the existing first order autoregressive price path in literature. Using dynamic programming method the analytical closed form solution of unconstrained optimal trading problem under the second order autoregressive process is derived. However in order to incorporate non-negativity constraints in the problem formulation, the optimal static trading problems under second order autoregressive price process are formulated. For a risk neutral investor, the optimal static trading problem of minimizing expected execution cost subject to non-negativity constraints is formulated as a quadratic programming problem. Whereas, for a risk averse investor the variance of execution cost is considered as a measure for the timing risk, and the mean–variance problem is formulated. Moreover, the optimal static trading problem subject to stochastic dominance constraints with mean–variance static trading strategy as the reference strategy is studied. Using Static approximation method the algorithm to solve proposed optimal static trading problems is presented. With numerical illustrations conducted on simulated data and the real market data, the significance of second order autoregressive price path, and the optimal static trading problems is presented.     

股票市场涨跌停板设置的微模拟研究

本文构建了一个基于订单驱动的人工模拟股票市场模型,并对投资者在连续竞价交易时的投资行为进行了刻画,数值模拟所得的股票对数收益率序列具有尖峰、胖尾等非正态分布特征并显示出明显的波动率聚集现象。通过在模拟实验中设定股票价格的不同涨跌幅限制范围,研究了涨跌停板设置对股票市场波动性的影响,分析结果表明,在忽略诸如恶意操纵等其他因素情况下,适当扩大涨跌幅限制并不会使股票收益的波动增大,相反还会使收益的波动率有较为明显的降低。     

Price formation model with zero-Neumann boundary condition

ABSTRACT

This paper concerns the mathematical analysis of a mathematical model for price formation. We take a large number of rational buyers and vendors in the market who are trading the same good into consideration. Each buyer or vendor will choose his optimal strategy to buy or sell goods. Since markets seldom stabilize, our model mimics the real market behavior. We introduce three models. All of them are modifications of the original J.-M. Lasry and P. L. Lions evolution model. In the first modified model, a random term is added to mimic the randomness of trading in the real market. This reflects markets with low volatility, where it might be difficulty to buy or sell goods at specific price. In the second model, we use cumulative density function instead of density function. We give numerical simulations on these two models in order to have a general picture on the solution. In the third model, we add a term associated with the parameter R to destabilize the original Larsy–Lions model and study oscillations and wave solutions depending on different values of R. We also study existence and uniqueness of the solution. Moreover, Several plots are given to demonstrate these results corresponding to the theoretical prediction.     

证券市场正反馈交易与收益自相关

正反馈交易是非理性投资者的一种交易策略,正反馈交易者通常依据证券前一期收益的高低决定其当期买卖行为。在正反馈交易存在的情况下,证券市场收益会表现出不同于有效市场假设所假定的特征,使证券市场表现出超常的波动性。本文建立了一个正反馈交易者和理性交易者参与的市场模型,分析了该市场中证券收益时间序列呈现出的正自相关性。     

不完全信息下基于价格信号的投资博奕模型

在金融市场中,投资者的预期是决定市场走向的重要因素,而机构投资者的资源禀赋与其市场操纵行为的获利之间往往呈现正相关关系.通过描述机构和散户基于价格信号传递的对策过程,建立了一个博弈模型,模型演绎结果在理论上证实了上述经济现实.     

夜盘交易对我国农产品期货市场影响的实证研究

随着我国农产品期货与国际市场的联动性进一步加强,为防止相关期货产品的隔夜风险和价格跳水问题,对部分农产品期货实行夜盘交易制度。为测度夜盘交易制度是否有益于农产品期货市场朝着稳定、理性的方向发展,本文采用了适合刻画金融序列波动性的GARCH族模型,实证检验得出GARCH、GARCH-M和EGARCH模型能够高度拟合农产品期货的价格序列并显著衡量夜盘交易对于我国农产品期货市场的影响。研究结论如下:第一、基于GRACH模型实证结果,夜盘交易制度变量的回归结果显著,该制度能减轻农产品期货的价格波动,且其影响是显著的;第二、EGARCH模型的回归结果同样显著,分别对比不同样本期的EGARCH模型实证结果可以得到,夜盘交易的开放减少了农产品期货市场的非对称性,使得市场趋向于理性的方向发展。