Risk Minimization for a Filtering Micromovement Model of Asset Price

Abstract

The classical option hedging problems have mostly been studied under continuous-time or equally spaced discrete-time models, which ignore two important components in the actual price: random trading times and market microstructure noise. In this paper, we study optimal hedging strategies for European derivatives based on a filtering micromovement model of asset prices with the two commonly ignored characteristics. We employ the local risk-minimization criterion to develop optimal hedging strategies under full information. Then, we project the hedging strategies on the observed information to obtain hedging strategies under partial information. Furthermore, we develop a related nonlinear filtering technique under the minimal martingale measure for the computation of such hedging strategies.     

Bayesian Inference via Filtering for a Class of Counting Processes: Application to the Micromovement of Asset Price

This paper highlights recent developments in a rich class of counting process models for the micromovement of asset price and in the Bayesian inference (estimation and model selection) via filtering for the class of models. A specific micromovement model built upon linear Brownian motion with jumping stochastic volatility is used to demonstrate the procedure to develop a micromovement model with specific tick-level sample characteristics. The model is further used to demonstrate the procedure to implement Bayes estimation via filtering, namely, to construct a recursive algorithm for computing the trade-by-trade Bayes parameter estimates, especially for the stochastic volatility. The consistency of the recursive algorithm model is proven. Simulation and real-data examples are provided as well as a brief example of Bayesian model selection via filtering.     

信息不对称下带有“随机压力”定价规则的连续时间模型

本文是对Back(1992)和Cho(2003)关于内部交易模型的拓展.在金融市场中一共有3类人:内部交易者,不知情交易者和做市商.考虑一类比Cho研究的模型更广的定价规则.主要用动态规划的方法,证明了当内部交易者是风险中性时,定价规则中"随机压力"消失,均衡价格还是仅依赖市场上累计交易量.相应地,本文的结论推广了Back和Cho在经典模型中的结论.     

Pricing in an equilibrium based model for a large investor

We study a financial model with a non-trivial price impact effect. In this model we consider the interaction of a large investor trading in an illiquid security, and a market maker who is quoting prices for this security. We assume that the market maker quotes the prices such that by taking the other side of the investor’s demand, the market maker will arrive at maturity with the maximal expected utility of the terminal wealth. Within this model we provide an explicit recursive pricing formula for an exponential utility function, as well as an asymptotic expansion for the price for a “small” simple demand.     

Optimal market making

Market makers provide liquidity to other market participants: they propose prices at which they stand ready to buy and sell a wide variety of assets. They face a complex optimization problem with both static and dynamic components. They need indeed to propose bid and offer/ask prices in an optimal way for making money out of the difference between these two prices (their bid–ask spread). Since they seldom buy and sell simultaneously, and therefore hold long and/or short inventories, they also need to mitigate the risk associated with price changes and subsequently skew their quotes dynamically. In this paper, (i) we propose a general modelling framework which generalizes (and reconciles) the various modelling approaches proposed in the literature since the publication of the seminal paper ‘High-frequency trading in a limit order book’ by Avellaneda and Stoikov, (ii) we prove new general results on the existence and the characterization of optimal market making strategies, (iii) we obtain new closed-form approximations for the optimal quotes, (iv) we extend the modelling framework to the case of multi-asset market making and we obtain general closed-form approximations for the optimal quotes of a multi-asset market maker, and (v) we show how the model can be used in practice in the specific (and original) case of two credit indices.     

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.     

Dealing with the inventory risk: a solution to the market making problem

Market makers continuously set bid and ask quotes for the stocks they have under consideration. Hence they face a complex optimization problem in which their return, based on the bid-ask spread they quote and the frequency at which they indeed provide liquidity, is challenged by the price risk they bear due to their inventory. In this paper, we consider a stochastic control problem similar to the one introduced by Ho and Stoll (J Fin Econ 9(1): 47–73, 1981) and formalized mathematically by Avellaneda and Stoikov (Quant Fin 8(3):217–224, 2008). The market is modeled using a reference price S _t following a Brownian motion with standard deviation σ, arrival rates of buy or sell liquidity-consuming orders depend on the distance to the reference price S _t and a market maker maximizes the expected utility of its P&L over a finite time horizon. We show that the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations associated to the stochastic optimal control problem can be transformed into a system of linear ordinary differential equations and we solve the market making problem under inventory constraints. We also shed light on the asymptotic behavior of the optimal quotes and propose closed-form approximations based on a spectral characterization of the optimal quotes.     

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.     

A Partially Observed Ultra-High-Frequency Data Model: Risk-Minimizing Hedging

An ultra-high-frequency data model on financial asset price movements is considered. This model allows us to relate the changes in price volatility and trading activity to news or information arrivals. The underlying event arrivals process is assumed to be unobserved by the market agents. Then, the study of the risk-minimizing hedging-strategies for derivatives under partial information bring us to a nonlinear filtering problem. Taking into account the weak form of market efficiency, under some Markovianity assumptions, classical filtering techniques are used to evaluate the risk-minimizing hedging-strategies.      

基于成交量分解模型的改进VWAP策略

传统VWAP(交易量加权平均价格)策略通过拆分大额委托订单,跟踪市场成交均价,达到最小化冲击成本的目的,而准确预测成交量日内分布是运用VWAP策略的关键。通过详细考察现有的改进VWAP策略中成交量预测模型的建模方式和预测结果,发现由于无法分离成交量日内周期结构,现有模型样本依赖性较大且难以适用于多数股票。因此,本文从个股与市场成交量变化趋势的关系角度出发,推导个股成交量与市场趋势的关系,通过构造个股成交量关于市场因素的因子载荷,将日内成交量分解为市场共同部分和个股特殊部分,预测成交量日内分布并构建动态VWAP策略。实证结果表明新的成交量分解模型可以有效分离个股的成交量日内周期结构,在此基础上构造的改进VWAP策略不仅具有较为广泛的适用性,且跟踪误差减少幅度比现阶段同类型的改进VWAP策略更大,能更好的降低市场冲击成本。     

The emissions trading paradox

This article considers the price history of CO₂ allowances in the EU Emission Trading Scheme. Since European Emissions Trading started in 2005, the prices of allowances have varied between less than one and thirty Euro per ton of CO₂. This previously unpredicted volatility and, more notably, a significant price crash in May 2005 led to the hypothesis that electricity producers might use their market power to influence the prices of allowances. Besides market power, the combination of information asymmetry and price interdependencies (between prices of primary goods – especially electricity – and allowances) plays an important role in explaining the emissions trading paradox. The model presented will show that banking can lead to such a price crash if market participators act rationally. Furthermore, in such a scenario banking can be profitable for sellers at the cost of buyers.     

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.     

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Market Making in Corporate Bonds: Beating the Curse of Dimensionality

ABSTRACT

In corporate bond markets, which are mainly OTC markets, market makers play a central role by providing bid and ask prices for bonds to asset managers. Determining the optimal bid and ask quotes that a market maker should set for a given universe of bonds is a complex task. The existing models, mostly inspired by the Avellaneda-Stoikov model, describe the complex optimization problem faced by market makers: proposing bid and ask prices for making money out of the difference between them while mitigating the market risk associated with holding inventory. While most of the models only tackle one-asset market making, they can often be generalized to a multi-asset framework. However, the problem of solving the equations characterizing the optimal bid and ask quotes numerically is seldom tackled in the literature, especially in high dimension. In this paper, we propose a numerical method for approximating the optimal bid and ask quotes over a large universe of bonds in a model à la Avellaneda–Stoikov. As classical finite difference methods cannot be used in high dimension, we present a discrete-time method inspired by reinforcement learning techniques, namely, a model-based deep actor-critic algorithm.     

Calibration of the default probability model

In this paper, we study the calibration problem for the Merton–Vasicek default probability model [Robert Merton, On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rate, Journal of Finance 29 (1974) 449–470]. We derive conditions that guarantee existence and uniqueness of the solution. Using analytical properties of the model, we propose a fast calibration procedure for the conditional default probability model in the integrated market and credit risk framework. Our solution allows one to avoid numerical integration problems as well as problems related to the numerical solution of the nonlinear equations.     

基于做市商过度自信行为的市场均衡分析

针对做市商的过度自信行为对金融市场的影响,通过建立的数学模型对市场均衡时的价格波动、市场交易量、价格质量、市场深度以及市场参与者的利润做了相应的分析。结果表明:做市商的过度自信行为对市场的影响不同于以往研究中过度自信的信息交易者。在市场均衡时,做市商的过度自信行为使得市场交易量增大、市场深度增大、价格质量改善,同时价格波动降低,即做市商的过度自信行为提高了市场的流动性、稳定性与有效性。另外,市场中的信息交易者与噪音交易者都能从做市商的过度自信行为中获利,但同时过度自信行为会损害做市商的利益,影响其在市场中的地位。较小程度的过度自信不会使做市商退出市场,其对市场的影响得以维持;但当这种过度自信达到一定程度后,做市商就会退出市场。     

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.     

Optimal Execution in a Market with Small Investors

Abstract

The author considers the dynamic trading strategies that minimize the expected cost of trading a large block of securities over a fixed finite number of periods. In this model, the market impact function that yields the execution prices for individual trades is endogeneously determined. This analysis is novel in that it introduces small investors, who do not affect the price flow, and a noise trader as market participants other than the institutional investors into a general equilibrium model. It is found that the institutional investor takes a rather complicated strategy to make use of its private information. As a result, the price impact not only changes over time but also depends on the trade history. Although there are several studies that deal with this topic in the recent empirical literature, it has remained unnoticed in the context of the theoretical optimal execution model.     

卖空限制下知情交易的测度及识别研究

经典的测量知情交易概率的模型默认交易者可以无限制的按照私有信息进行卖空交易,而目前我国股票市场存在卖空限制,直接将经典模型应用到我国股票市场时会使测量结果出现偏差。考虑到我国股票市场现状,本文在经典的知情交易概率模型中引入两个卖空限制参数,构建了本文的SC-TPIN模型。通过对融券标的中发生利空消息的股票样本进行实证分析,证实了本文构建的SC-TPIN模型估计出的结果与实际情况相符合。本文还以SC-TPIN模型估计出的SCTPIN值为参照,基于样本股票的低频数据构建了知情交易识别指标组,并使用数据挖掘中的支持向量机算法、KNN算法及Logit模型对黑白样本的知情交易高低情况进行识别比较,构建知情交易识别体系,发现使用支持向量机算法识别全样本的正确率达到了89%,识别效果较理想。     

具有不完全信息的内部交易动态博弈

在Kyle模型中的线性均衡假设进行了修正的基础上,针对内部交易者只具有资产价值不完全信息情况,建立两期风险厌恶型内部交易均衡模型,并求得该模型的子博弈纳什均衡解.由此发现资产价值不完信息中噪音对市场干扰程度愈小(波动程度愈小),就愈有利于内部交易者的收益;内部交易者的交易就愈活跃;交易均衡价格包含资产价值信息就愈多.     

Restructuring risk in credit default swaps: An empirical analysis

This paper estimates the price for restructuring risk in the US corporate bond market during 1999–2005. Comparing quotes from default swap (CDS) contracts with a restructuring event and without, we find that the average premium for restructuring risk represents 6%–8% of the swap rate without restructuring. We show that the restructuring premium depends on firm-specific balance-sheet and macroeconomic variables. And, when default swap rates without a restructuring event increase, the increase in restructuring premia is higher for low-credit-quality firms than for high-credit-quality firms. We propose a reduced-form arbitrage-free model for pricing default swaps that explicitly incorporates the distinction between restructuring and default events. A case study illustrating the model’s implementation is provided.