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Compounding Effects in Leveraged ETFs: Beyond the Volatility Drag Paradigm

A common belief is that leveraged ETFs (LETFs) suffer long-term performance decay due to \emph{“volatility drag”}. We show that this view is incomplete: LETF performance depends fundamentally on return autocorrelation and return dynamics. In markets with independent returns, LETFs exhibit positive e

Holy Grail Math 8.5 Rigor 8 ·  April 28, 2025

On Frequency-Based Optimal Portfolio with Transaction Costs

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of rebalancing frequency and transaction costs on the log-optimal portfolio, which is a portfolio that maximizes the expected logarithmic growth rate of an investor’s wealth. We prove that the frequency-dependent log-optimal portfolio problem with c

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  January 7, 2023

Dynamic Weight Optimization for Double Linear Policy: A Stochastic Model Predictive Control Approach

The Double Linear Policy (DLP) framework guarantees a Robust Positive Expectation (RPE) under optimized constant-weight designs or admissible prespecified time-varying policies. However, the sequential optimization of these time-varying weights remains an open challenge. To address this gap, we prop

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 6 ·  April 1, 2026

On Data-Driven Drawdown Control with Restart Mechanism in Trading

This paper extends the existing drawdown modulation control policy to include a novel restart mechanism for trading. It is known that the drawdown modulation policy guarantees the maximum percentage drawdown no larger than a prespecified drawdown limit for all time with probability one. However, whe

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 6 ·  March 5, 2023

Sampled-Data Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Control of Multiplicative Systems: A Convex Relaxation with Performance Guarantees

This paper investigates the robust optimal control of sampled-data stochastic systems with multiplicative noise and distributional ambiguity. We consider a class of discrete-time optimal control problems where the controller \emph{jointly} selects a feedback policy and a sampling period to maximize

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 4.5 ·  February 4, 2026

Cost-Sensitive Online Window Size Selection for Portfolio Management

This paper investigates cost-sensitive online window size selection for portfolio management under changing market conditions. Specifically, we propose a two-level framework that constructs portfolios using candidate window sizes and dynamically aggregates them through online learning. By treating c

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 4 ·  September 24, 2026

Is Noisy Data a Blessing in Disguise? A Distributionally Robust Optimization Perspective

Noisy data are often viewed as a challenge for decision-making. This paper studies a distributionally robust optimization (DRO) that shows how such noise can be systematically incorporated. Rather than applying DRO to the noisy empirical distribution, we construct ambiguity sets over the \emph{laten

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 4 ·  September 1, 2025

On Robustness of Double Linear Policy with Time-Varying Weights

In this paper, we extend the existing double linear policy by incorporating time-varying weights instead of constant weights and study a certain robustness property, called robust positive expectation (RPE), in a discrete-time setting. We prove that the RPE property holds by employing a novel elemen

Lab Rats Math 7 Rigor 4.5 ·  March 20, 2023

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