Investment could be costly for several reasons. The most significant contributor, undoubtedly, goes to bad market timing. Investors thus have to consider market timing strategies, i.e., to strategically shift the funds completely between risky and risk free assets after analyzing market...

Hidden orders are offered by many lit trading venues for participants to hide the true size of their orders. To help a risk-neutral trader executing a target volume to minimize the execution cost by benefitting from the setting of a limit order market allowing hidden orders, we propose a...

Since options in a portfolio can offset one another partially in terms of the market risk, the margin calculation for option portfolios is complicated due to its combinatorial nature. We consider in this technical note margining balanced option portfolios, in which the number of long positions...

We develop in this paper a novel portfolio selection framework with a feature of dual robustness in both return distribution modeling and portfolio optimization. While predicting the return distributions of the future market always represents the most compelling challenge in investment, any...

We develop a formal model to investigate the implications of bounded rationality for the origin and structure of loss aversion and optimism in marketplaces. Based on Simon's original description, we explicitly model bounded rationality as a decision mechanism that captures incomplete...

This paper revisits the efficiency of a rational expectations equilibrium model of a competitive market from the perspective of the incentive to social communication. The classical result tells us that the equilibrium price perfectly reveals all dispersed information in the market when the...