3 research outputs found
Accuracy of Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimators for Heston volatility SDE
We study approximate maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) for the parameters
of the widely used Heston stock and volatility stochastic differential
equations (SDEs). We compute explicit closed form estimators maximizing the
discretized log-likelihood of observations recorded at times . We study the asymptotic bias of these parameter estimators first for
fixed and , as well as when the global observation time and . We identify two explicit key functions of the
parameters which control the type of asymptotic distribution of these
estimators, and we analyze the dichotomy between asymptotic normality and
attraction by stable like distributions with heavy tails. \\ We present two
examples of model fitting for Heston SDEs, one for daily data and one for
intraday data, with moderate values of .Comment: 31 pages, 0 figure
Option Pricing Accuracy for Estimated Heston Models
We consider assets for which price and squared volatility are
jointly driven by Heston joint stochastic differential equations (SDEs). When
the parameters of these SDEs are estimated from sub-sampled data , estimation errors do impact the classical option pricing PDEs. We
estimate these option pricing errors by combining numerical evaluation of
estimation errors for Heston SDEs parameters with the computation of option
price partial derivatives with respect to these SDEs parameters. This is
achieved by solving six parabolic PDEs with adequate boundary conditions. To
implement this approach, we also develop an estimator for the
market price of volatility risk, and we study the sensitivity of option pricing
to estimation errors affecting . We illustrate this approach by
fitting Heston SDEs to 252 daily joint observations of the S\&P 500 index and
of its approximate volatility VIX, and by numerical applications to European
options written on the S\&P 500 index
Realtime market microstructure analysis: online Transaction Cost Analysis
Motivated by the practical challenge in monitoring the performance of a large
number of algorithmic trading orders, this paper provides a methodology that
leads to automatic discovery of the causes that lie behind a poor trading
performance. It also gives theoretical foundations to a generic framework for
real-time trading analysis. Academic literature provides different ways to
formalize these algorithms and show how optimal they can be from a
mean-variance, a stochastic control, an impulse control or a statistical
learning viewpoint. This paper is agnostic about the way the algorithm has been
built and provides a theoretical formalism to identify in real-time the market
conditions that influenced its efficiency or inefficiency. For a given set of
characteristics describing the market context, selected by a practitioner, we
first show how a set of additional derived explanatory factors, called anomaly
detectors, can be created for each market order. We then will present an online
methodology to quantify how this extended set of factors, at any given time,
predicts which of the orders are underperforming while calculating the
predictive power of this explanatory factor set. Armed with this information,
which we call influence analysis, we intend to empower the order monitoring
user to take appropriate action on any affected orders by re-calibrating the
trading algorithms working the order through new parameters, pausing their
execution or taking over more direct trading control. Also we intend that use
of this method in the post trade analysis of algorithms can be taken advantage
of to automatically adjust their trading action.Comment: 33 pages, 12 figure