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by EdisonCruise
November 21st, 2019, 12:28 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How to make ito's forumula for jump-diffusion a martingale
Replies: 3
Views: 3829

Re: How to make ito's forumula for jump-diffusion a martingale

Thank you so much Alan. That's my also my understanding of this problem before reading page 26 of http://people.ucalgary.ca/~aswish/JumpProcesses.pdf, based on which after vanishing the \(dt\) term, there should be an additional \( -E [Z_{N_t}] \eta_t f'(X_t) \)  term in the \(f(t,x) \) PIDE.
by EdisonCruise
November 20th, 2019, 7:41 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?
Replies: 6
Views: 4457

Re: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?

Thank you Alan. Maybe I confuse it with something. I have made a new thread for this problem.
by EdisonCruise
November 20th, 2019, 7:40 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How to make ito's forumula for jump-diffusion a martingale
Replies: 3
Views: 3829

How to make ito's forumula for jump-diffusion a martingale

\(dY_t=Z_{N_t} dN_t \) is a compound Poisson process with intensity \(\lambda\) and \( Z_{N_t} \) is a random variable for the jump size. \(dW_t \) is Brownian motion. The jump diffusion process \(X_t\) is defined as $$ dX_t=\nu_t dt+u_t dW_t + \eta_t dY_t$$ So the Ito's lemma for this jump diffusio...
by EdisonCruise
November 19th, 2019, 1:17 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?
Replies: 6
Views: 4457

Re: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?

Thank you. I have corrected the typo. However, in \(dY_t=Z_{N_t} dN_t\), \(Z_{N_t}\) is a random variable, indicating the random jump size. I think it makes sense to include an expectation w.r.t.  \(Z_{N_t} \) in the drift term, as in page 26 of  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~aswish/JumpProcesses.pdf ...
by EdisonCruise
November 18th, 2019, 8:53 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?
Replies: 6
Views: 4457

Re: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?

Thank you Alan. May I ask one more question? In page 645 of your given file, there is an Ito formula for the compensated compund Poisson process: $$f(Y_t)=f(0)+\int_0^t \!(f(Y_s)-f(Y_s-))(dN_s-\lambda ds)+\lambda \int_0^t \!(f(Y_s)-f(Y_s-))ds$$ where \(dY_t=Z_{N_t} dN_t \) is a compound Poisson proc...
by EdisonCruise
November 16th, 2019, 10:25 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?
Replies: 6
Views: 4457

What’s Ito’s lemma for Poisson process in this function?

If \(N_t\) is a Poisson process with intensity \(\lambda \),and \(dX_t=\delta dN_t\), \(q_t=-N_t\), then the Ito's lemma for function \(H(X_t)\) should be $$ dH(X_t)=[H(X_t+\delta)-H(X_t)]dN_t$$ For the function   \(H(X_t,q_t)\), why it is not something like this? $$ dH(X_t,q_t)=[H(X_t+\delta,q_t)-H...
by EdisonCruise
October 15th, 2019, 3:10 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?
Replies: 32
Views: 19588

Re: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?

Thank you katastrofa. I think your explanation make sense.
by EdisonCruise
October 10th, 2019, 1:35 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Is there any stochastic control literature about a linear combination of variables?
Replies: 0
Views: 9502

Is there any stochastic control literature about a linear combination of variables?

Suppose I have a portfolio of N options and they are affected by M Brownian motions, where M<<N. I hope to maximize the expected return of this portfolio, which is a linear combination of each stock’s return. Then how to formulate the HJB equation? Is there any classical literature/material about th...
by EdisonCruise
July 24th, 2019, 2:33 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?
Replies: 32
Views: 19588

Re: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?

Thank you Alan. I can understand the option pricing problem. The BS pde must be solved by backwards, only because the terminal condition, i.e., the option pay off, is well defined. The initial option price is unknown(or cannot be difined), so need to be solved. This is not because of the data is non...
by EdisonCruise
July 23rd, 2019, 1:13 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?
Replies: 32
Views: 19588

Re: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?

Thank you all, but I what I cannot understand is the real reason that Bellman equation is ususally solved by backwards. Can any one give an exmaple in which both intitial and terminal conditions are well defined, but the Bellman equation can only be solved by backwards?
by EdisonCruise
July 22nd, 2019, 8:30 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?
Replies: 32
Views: 19588

Re: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?

Thank you katstrofa. I aslo think the Bellman equation can be solve by forwards with well defined and NON-stationary data. But that's in contrast to Nicole Bäuerle and Ulrich Rieder' book. I cannot understand why the stationarity of data is related to forward/backward solution.
by EdisonCruise
July 22nd, 2019, 1:18 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?
Replies: 32
Views: 19588

Re: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?

I cannot make a specific example, because I read that in a book. The followingsa are the images I took from Nicole Bäuerle and Ulrich Rieder' book. Maybe I can rephase the question, if the initial condition is well defined and the data is NON-stationary, can the Bellman equation be solved by forward...
by EdisonCruise
July 21st, 2019, 3:13 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?
Replies: 32
Views: 19588

Why is Bellman Equation solved by backwards?

I though Bellman Equation was solved by backwards because the terminal condition is easier to define than the initial condition. Until recently, I read the book Markov decision processes with application to finance by Nicole Bäuerle and Ulrich Rieder. It says ‘Due to the stationarity of the data ho...
by EdisonCruise
June 1st, 2019, 10:21 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: What's the optimal strategy to this food transportation problem?
Replies: 3
Views: 9827

What's the optimal strategy to this food transportation problem?

The distance between city A and B  is 100 km. The total food needs to move from A to B is 3 tons. A transportation team can carry food 1 ton per day and at the same time consumes food 0.25 tons per day. Then how to setup transfer stations between city A nd B to minimize food consumption during tran...
by EdisonCruise
May 29th, 2019, 12:34 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: How to calibrate an exponential distribution with scale?
Replies: 6
Views: 7487

Re: How to calibrate an exponential distribution with scale?

I think the model should work for small-tick-size assets. But for most of other asset types, this model is not applicable directly.
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