Behaviour of futures markets and implication for portfolio choice

Zhou, Weifeng (2018). Behaviour of futures markets and implication for portfolio choice. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

First, we document the co-existence of the time series momentum and of the term structure factors in the global commodity futures market. We demonstrate that the strategies based on the joint time series momentum and term structure trading signal outperform time series momentum only strategies and term structure only strategies.

Second, we propose a Multivariate Volatility Regulated Kelly strategy, which imposes extra variance penalization compared to the Kelly criterion. We furthermore demonstrate the superiority of our method in relatively low correlated portfolios, relative to the fractional Kelly and full Kelly strategies. The simulation results and Chinese commodity future empirical results strongly support our method.

Third, we combine the shrinkage theory and CUSUM change point detection in order to improve the covariance estimators. The change point embedded covariance estimator can pe1jorm better than any shrinking covariance estimators in the portfolio management. We empirically test different shrinkage estimators based portfolios in global futures markets.

Type of Work:	Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)
Award Type:	Doctorates > Ph.D.
Supervisor(s):	Supervisor(s) Email ORCID Liu, Zhenya UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Dickinson, David G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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College/Faculty:	Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Social Sciences
School or Department:	Birmingham Business School, Department of Economics
Funders:	None/not applicable
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
URI:	http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/8263

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