We model and study the behavior of bankrupt stocks. We are interested in the dynamics of stocks and options, and in particular the cost of establishing positions with negative delta.This extends a model of Avellaneda and Lipkin which was used to model hard-to-borrow stocks. This model is a...

We study model-driven statistical arbitrage strategies in U.S. equities. Trading signals are generated in two ways: using Principal Component Analysis and using sector ETFs. In both cases, we consider the residuals, or idiosyncratic components of stock returns, and model them as a mean-reverting...