English

Robustness of mathematical models and technical analysis strategies

Portfolio Management 2016-05-03 v1 Mathematical Finance Trading and Market Microstructure

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to compare the performances of the optimal strategy under parameters mis-specification and of a technical analysis trading strategy. The setting we consider is that of a stochastic asset price model where the trend follows an unobservable Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. For both strategies, we provide the asymptotic expectation of the logarithmic return as a function of the model parameters. Finally, numerical examples find that an investment strategy using the cross moving averages rule is more robust than the optimal strategy under parameters mis-specification.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.00173,
  title  = {Robustness of mathematical models and technical analysis strategies},
  author = {Ahmed Bel Hadj Ayed and Grégoire Loeper and Frédéric Abergel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00173},
  year   = {2016}
}