An zahlreichen Wertpapiermärkten, an denen Aktien und Optionen gehandelt wer-den, sind professionelle Händler beauftragt, kontinuierlich verbindliche Kauf- und Verkaufsangebote an potentielle Nachfrager zu geben, um für alle interessierten Marktteilnehmer jederzeit einen sofortigen...

As a result of the recent financial crises, equity markets have performed poorly in the last five years or so. In consequence, equity long-only strategies have generally been unattractive over this period. This motivates the investigation on whether better performance can be achieved by...

We develop a new method to optimize portfolios of options in a market where European calls and puts are available with many exercise prices for each of several potentially correlated underlying assets. We identify the combination of asset-specific option payoffs that maximizes the Sharpe ratio...