ISBN : 9789811282744
Author : Yang Zhou
Publisher : World Scientific
Year : 2025
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Futures play an integral role in the financial markets. Tens of millions of contracts are traded on futures exchanges around the globe every day. In recent years, futures have been incorporated into a wide array of financial securities and have become the driving force behind their price dynamics. Managed futures portfolios and commodity trading advisors (CTAs), with hundreds of billions under management, are major parts of the hedge fund industry. This book presents a unique stochastic control approach to dynamic futures trading. Multiple stochastic models are designed to capture the salient features of various market regimes and dynamics. They are useful for pricing futures contracts and building futures portfolios. The authors analyze the mathematical problems associated