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A convex duality method for optimal liquidation with participation constraints

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  • Olivier Gu'eant
  • Jean-Michel Lasry
  • Jiang Pu

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In spite of the growing consideration for optimal execution in the financial mathematics literature, numerical approximations of optimal trading curves are almost never discussed. In this article, we present a numerical method to approximate the optimal strategy of a trader willing to unwind a large portfolio. The method we propose is very general as it can be applied to multi-asset portfolios with any form of execution costs, including a bid-ask spread component, even when participation constraints are imposed. Our method, based on convex duality, only requires Hamiltonian functions to have $C^{1,1}$ regularity while classical methods require additional regularity and cannot be applied to all cases found in practice.

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  • Olivier Gu'eant & Jean-Michel Lasry & Jiang Pu, 2014. "A convex duality method for optimal liquidation with participation constraints," Papers 1407.4614, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2014.
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