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- Title
Optimal Dynamic Trading Strategies with Risk Limits.
- Authors
Cuoco, Domenico; Hua He; Isaenko, Sergei
- Abstract
Value at Risk (VaR) has emerged in recent years as a standard tool to measure and control the risk of trading portfolios. Yet, existing theoretical analysis of the optimal behavior of a trader subject to VaR limits has produced a negative view of VaR as a risk-control tool. In particular, VaR limits have been found to induce increased risk exposure in some states and an increased probability of extreme losses. However, these conclusions are based on models that are either static or dynamically inconsistent. In this paper, we formulate a dynamically consistent model of optimal portfolio choice subject to VaR limits and show that the concerns expressed in earlier papers do not apply if, consistently with common practice, the VaR limit is reevaluated dynamically. In particular, we find that the optimal risk exposure of a trader subject to a VaR limit is always lower than that of an unconstrained trader and that the probability of extreme losses is also lower. We also consider risk limits formulated in terms of tail conditional expectation (TCE), a coherent risk measure often advocated as an alternative to VaR, and show that in our dynamic setting it is always possible to transform a TCE limit into an equivalent VaR limit, and conversely.
- Subjects
BUSINESS planning; VALUE at risk; GOVERNMENT securities; INVESTMENTS; PORTFOLIO performance; BUSINESS enterprises
- Publication
Operations Research, 2008, Vol 56, Issue 2, p358
- ISSN
0030-364X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/opre.1070.0433