Deep Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
Abstract: This thesis considers a deep learning approach to a dynamic portfolio optimization problem. A proposed deep learning algorithm is tested on a simplified version of the problem with promising results, which suggest continued testing of the algorithm, on a larger scale for the original problem. First the dynamics and objective function of the problem are presented, and the existence of a no-trade-region is explained via the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. The no-trade-region dictates the optimal trading strategy. Solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation to find the no-trade-region is not computationally feasible in high dimension with a classic finite difference approach. Therefore a new algorithm to iteratively update and improve an estimation of the no-trade-region is derived. This is a deep learning algorithm that utilizes neural network function approximation. The algorithm is tested on the one-dimensional version of the problem for which the true solution is known. While testing in one dimension only does not assess whether this algorithm scales better than a finite difference approach to higher dimensions, the learnt solution comes fairly close to true solution with a relative score of 0.72, why it is suggested that continued research of this algorithm is performed for the multidimensional version of the problem.
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