Generalized Optimal Trading Trajectories: A Financial Quantum Computing Application

11 Pages Posted: 9 Mar 2015 Last revised: 5 Jul 2015

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Marcos Lopez de Prado

Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering; Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; True Positive Technologies

Date Written: June 7, 2015

Abstract

Generalized dynamic portfolio optimization problems have no known closed-form solution. These problems are particularly relevant to large asset managers, as the costs from excessive turnover and implementation shortfall may critically erode the profitability of their investment strategies.

In this brief note we demonstrate how this financial problem, intractable to modern supercomputers, can be reformulated as an integer optimization problem. Such representation makes it amenable to quantum computers.

Keywords: High-performance computing, integer optimization, quantum computing, adiabatic process

JEL Classification: G0, G1, G2, G15, G24, E44

Suggested Citation

López de Prado, Marcos and López de Prado, Marcos, Generalized Optimal Trading Trajectories: A Financial Quantum Computing Application (June 7, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2575184 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2575184

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