We consider the stochastic solution to a Cauchy problem corresponding to a nonnegative diffusion with zero drift, which represents a price process under some risk-neutral measure. When the diffusion coefficient is locally Holder continuous with some exponent in (0,1], the stochastic solution is...

This paper is concerned with a pairs trading rule. The idea is to monitor two historically correlated securities. When divergence is underway, i.e., one stock moves up while the other moves down, a pairs trade is entered which consists of a pair to short the outperforming stock and to long the...

We study the portfolio optimization problem of maximizing the outperformance probability over a random benchmark through dynamic trading with a fixed initial capital. Under a general incomplete market framework, this stochastic control problem can be formulated as a composite pure hypothesis...

We provide an accurate approximation method for inverting an option price to the implied volatility under arithmetic Brownian motion, which is widely quoted in Fixed Income markets. The maximum error in the volatility is in the order of 10-10 of the given option price and much smaller for the...

We provide an accurate approximation method for inverting an option price to the implied volatility under arithmetic Brownian motion. The maximum error in the volatility is in the order of 1e-10 of the given option price and much smaller for the near-the-money options. Thus our approximation can...