Title
A Generalization of the Robust Positive Expectation Theorem for Stock Trading via Feedback Control
Abstract
The starting point of this paper is the so-called Robust Positive Expectation (RPE) Theorem, a result which appears in literature in the context of Simultaneous Long-Short stock trading. This theorem states that using a combination of two specially-constructed linear feedback trading controllers, one long and one short, the expected value of the resulting gain-loss function is guaranteed to be robustly positive with respect to a large class of stochastic processes for the stock price. The main result of this paper is a generalization of this theorem. Whereas previous work applies to a single stock, in this paper, we consider a pair of stocks. To this end, we make two assumptions on their expected returns. The first assumption involves price correlation between the two stocks and the second involves a bounded non-zero momentum condition. With known uncertainty bounds on the parameters associated with these assumptions, our new version of the RPE Theorem provides necessary and sufficient conditions on the positive feedback parameter K of the controller under which robust positive expectation is assured. We also demonstrate that our result generalizes the one existing for the single-stock case. Finally, it is noted that our results also can be interpreted in the context of pairs trading.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/ECC.2018.8550535
2018 European Control Conference (ECC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
pairs trading,feedback control,theorem states,linear feedback trading controllers,stock price,price correlation,nonzero momentum condition,RPE Theorem,positive feedback parameter K,robust positive expectation theorem,long-short stock trading,gain-loss function,stochastic processes,uncertainty bounds,sufficient conditions
Econometrics,Control theory,Economics,Stochastic process,Positive feedback,Pairs trade,Expected value,Momentum,Stock (geology),Bounded function
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-5303-6
1
0.40
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Atul Deshpande1101.28
Barmish, B.R.27120.04