Title: Reversion strategy for online portfolio selection with transaction costs

Authors: Xingyu Yang; Huaping Li; Yong Zhang; Jin'an He

Addresses: School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ' School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ' School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ' School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Abstract: This paper is about the online portfolio selection problem with transaction costs, which is an unavoidable factor in real financial trading. By exploiting the mean reversion property of stock prices, we propose a portfolio selection strategy named 'mean reversion strategy with transaction costs (MRTC)'. To avoid overmuch transaction costs, the strategy adaptively transfers a proper amount of capital between stocks to adjust the turnover. Furthermore, we conduct numerical experiments on several real market datasets, and show that our proposed algorithm outperforms the existing state-of-the-art ones when taking transaction costs into account.

Keywords: online portfolio selection; investment strategy; mean reversion; transaction costs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2018.088632

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, 2018 Vol.11 No.1, pp.79 - 99

Received: 16 Dec 2016
Accepted: 20 Jun 2017

Published online: 13 Dec 2017 *

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