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We consider a class of optimal portfolio choice problems in continuous time where the agent's transactions create both transient cross-impact driven by a matrix-valued Volterra propagator, as well as temporary price impact. We formulate…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-20 Eduardo Abi Jaber , Eyal Neuman , Sturmius Tuschmann

This paper deals with numerical solutions of maximizing expected utility from terminal wealth under a non-bankruptcy constraint. The wealth process is subject to shocks produced by a general marked point process. The problem of the agent is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-06 Mohamed Mnif

A multi-variable adaptive controller is derived as the explicit solution to a minimax dynamic game. The minimizing player selects the control action as a function of past state measurements and inputs. The maximizing player selects…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Anders Rantzer

We study the optimal execution of market and limit orders with permanent and temporary price impacts as well as uncertainty in the filling of limit orders. Our continuous-time model incorporates a trade speed limiter and a trader director…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-04-13 Brian Bulthuis , Julio Concha , Tim Leung , Brian Ward

We propose a microstructural modeling framework for studying optimal market making policies in a FIFO (first in first out) limit order book (LOB). In this context, the limit orders, market orders, and cancel orders arrivals in the LOB are…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-02-21 Frédéric Abergel , Côme Huré , Huyên Pham

The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good mechanisms for risk-averse sellers. As is standard in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-02 Mukund Sundararajan , Qiqi Yan

We investigate the general structure of optimal investment and consumption with small proportional transaction costs. For a safe asset and a risky asset with general continuous dynamics, traded with random and time-varying but small…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-18 Jan Kallsen , Johannes Muhle-Karbe

We introduce a trade strategy representation theorem for performance measurement and portable alpha in high frequency trading, by embedding a robust trading algorithm that describe portfolio manager market timing behavior, in a canonical…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-06-21 Godfrey Charles-Cadogan

This article explores the optimisation of trading strategies in Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) and centralised exchanges. We develop a model that accounts for the interaction between these two markets, estimating the conditional…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-06 Sebastian Jaimungal , Yuri F. Saporito , Max O. Souza , Yuri Thamsten

We study the optimal order placement strategy with the presence of a liquidity cost. In this problem, a stock trader wishes to clear her large inventory by a predetermined time horizon $T$. A trader uses both limit and market orders, and a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-24 Hyoeun Lee , Kiseop Lee

We investigate the well-posedness in the Hadamard sense and the absence of price manipulation in the optimal execution problem within the Almgren-Chriss framework, where the temporary and permanent impact parameters vary deterministically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Gianluca Palmari , Fabrizio Lillo , Zoltan Eisler

We introduce a price impact model which accounts for finite market depth, tightness and resilience. Its coupled bid- and ask-price dynamics induce convex liquidity costs. We provide existence of an optimal solution to the classical problem…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-23 Peter Bank , Moritz Voß

The classical optimal trading problem is the closure of a position in an asset over a time interval; the trader maximizes an expected utility under the constraint that the position be fully closed by terminal time. Since the asset price is…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Mervan Aksu , Alexandre Popier , Ali Devin Sezer

This paper extends the optimal-trading framework developed in arXiv:2409.03586v1 to compute optimal strategies with real-world constraints. The aim of the current paper, as with the previous, is to study trading in the context of…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-09-26 Neil A. Chriss

We study an optimal execution strategy for purchasing a large block of shares over a fixed time horizon. The execution problem is subject to a general price impact that gradually dissipates due to market resilience. We allow for general…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-14 Etienne Chevalier , Yadh Hafsi , Vathana Ly Vath , Sergio Pulido

In this paper, a robust optimal reinsurance-investment problem with delay is studied under the $\alpha$-maxmin mean-variance criterion. The surplus process of an insurance company approximates Brownian motion with drift. The financial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Min Zhang , Yong He

We study the problem of dynamically trading multiple futures whose underlying asset price follows a multiscale central tendency Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (MCTOU) model. Under this model, we derive the closed-form no-arbitrage prices for the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-26 Tim Leung , Yang Zhou

We study the optimal portfolio liquidation problem over a finite horizon in a limit order book with bid-ask spread and temporary market price impact penalizing speedy execution trades. We use a continuous-time modeling framework, but in…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Idris Kharroubi , Huyen Pham

We develop a dual-control method for approximating investment strategies in incomplete environments that emerge from the presence of trading constraints. Convex duality enables the approximate technology to generate lower and upper bounds…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-29 Thijs Kamma , Antoon Pelsser

We consider the multi-period portfolio optimization problem with a single asset that can be held long or short. Due to the presence of transaction costs, maximizing the immediate reward at each period may prove detrimental, as frequent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Chutian Ma , Paul Smith