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Robust median reversion strategy for on-line portfolio selection
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI 2013: Beijing, 3-9 August
  • Dingjiang HUANG, East China University of Science and Technology
  • Junlong ZHOU, East China University of Science and Technology
  • Bin LI, Nanyang Technological University
  • Steven HOI, Singapore Management University
  • Shuigeng ZHOU, Fudan University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2013
Abstract

On-line portfolio selection has been attracting increasing interests from artificial intelligence community in recent decades. Mean reversion, as one most frequent pattern in financial markets, plays an important role in some state-of-the-art strategies. Though successful in certain datasets, existing mean reversion strategies do not fully consider noises and outliers in the data, leading to estimation error and thus non-optimal portfolios, which results in poor performance in practice. To overcome the limitation, we propose to exploit the reversion phenomenon by robust L1-median estimator, and design a novel on-line portfolio selection strategy named "Robust Median Reversion" (RMR), which makes optimal portfolios based on the improved reversion estimation. Empirical results on various real markets show that RMR can overcome the drawbacks of existing mean reversion algorithms and achieve significantly better results. Finally, RMR runs in linear time, and thus is suitable for large-scale trading applications.

ISBN
9781577356332
Publisher
AAAI Press
City or Country
Palo Alto, CA
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/13/Papers/296.pdf
Citation Information
Dingjiang HUANG, Junlong ZHOU, Bin LI, Steven HOI, et al.. "Robust median reversion strategy for on-line portfolio selection" Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI 2013: Beijing, 3-9 August (2013) p. 2006 - 2012
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