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Optimal execution with rough path signatures. (English) Zbl 1443.91263

Summary: We present a method for obtaining approximate solutions to the problem of optimal execution, based on a signature method. The framework is general, only requiring that the price process is a geometric rough path and the price impact function is a continuous function of the trading speed. Following an approximation of the optimization problem, we calculate an optimal solution for the trading speed in the space of linear functions on a truncation of the signature of the price process. We provide strong numerical evidence illustrating the accuracy and flexibility of the approach. Our numerical investigation both examines cases where exact solutions are known, demonstrating that the method accurately approximates these solutions, and models where closed-form solutions of the optimal trading speed are not known. In the latter case, we obtain favorable comparisons with standard execution strategies.

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91G10 Portfolio theory
60G99 Stochastic processes

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