Preface -- Introduction -- Trading under the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model -- Trading under the exponential OU model -- Trading under the CIR model -- Futures trading under mean reversion -- Optimal liquidation of options -- Trading credit derivatives -- Bibliography -- Index

We study the profitability of optimal mean reversion trading strategies in the US equity market. Different from regular pair trading practice, we apply maximum likelihood method to construct the optimal static pairs trading portfolio that best fits the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and rigorously...

This book provides a systematic study on the optimal timing of trades in markets with mean-reverting price dynamics. We present a financial engineering approach that distills the core mathematical questions from different trading problems, and also incorporates the practical aspects of trading,...