Forecasting semi-stationary processes and statistical arbitrage

Si Bao, Shi Chen, Wei An Zheng, Yu Zhou

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Abstract

If a financial derivative can be traded consecutively and its terminal payoffs can be adjusted as the sum of a bounded process and a stationary process, then we can use the moving average of the historical payoffs to forecast and the corresponding errors form a generalised mean reversion process. Thus we can price the financial derivatives by its moving average. One can even possibly get statistical arbitrage from certain derivative pricing. We particularly discuss the example of European call options. We show that there is a possibility to get statistical arbitrage from Black–Scholes's option price.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)179-189
Number of pages11
JournalStatistical Theory and Related Fields
Volume4
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Black–Scholes model
  • Stationary process
  • mean reversion
  • statistical arbitrage

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