TY - JOUR
T1 - Forecasting trends with asset prices
AU - Bel Hadj Ayed, Ahmed
AU - Loeper, Gregoire
AU - Abergel, Frédéric
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The question of interest in this paper is the estimation of the trend of a financial asset, and the impact of its misspecification on investment strategies. The setting we consider is that of a stochastic asset price model where the trend follows an unobservable Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Motivated by the use of Kalman filtering as a forecasting tool, we address the problem of parameter estimation, and measure the effect of parameter misspecification. Numerical examples illustrate the difficulty of trend forecasting in financial time series.
AB - The question of interest in this paper is the estimation of the trend of a financial asset, and the impact of its misspecification on investment strategies. The setting we consider is that of a stochastic asset price model where the trend follows an unobservable Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Motivated by the use of Kalman filtering as a forecasting tool, we address the problem of parameter estimation, and measure the effect of parameter misspecification. Numerical examples illustrate the difficulty of trend forecasting in financial time series.
KW - Investment strategies
KW - Kalman filter
KW - Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process
KW - Trend estimation
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UR - http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/doi/pdf/10.1080/14697688.2016.1206959?needAccess=true
U2 - 10.1080/14697688.2016.1206959
DO - 10.1080/14697688.2016.1206959
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978976079
SN - 1469-7688
VL - 17
SP - 369
EP - 382
JO - Quantitative Finance
JF - Quantitative Finance
IS - 3
ER -