Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
977819 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2008 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
Financial markets, with their vast range of different investment opportunities, can be seen as a system of many different simultaneous games with diverse and often unknown levels of risk and reward. We introduce generalizations to the classic Kelly investment game [J.L. Kelly, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2 (1956) 185-189] that incorporates these features, and use them to investigate the influence of diversification and limited information on Kelly-optimal portfolios. In particular, we present approximate formulas for optimizing diversified portfolios and exact results for optimal investment in unknown games where the only available information is past outcomes.
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