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## New answers tagged kelly-criterion

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Others may have different views, but I've tried applying Kelly formula/fractional Kelly strategies to capital allocation, and find it rather unpractical and risky. I would honestly suggest a three-tier optimization framework that I am myself adopting: Assuming you have $M$ number of models covering multiple instruments and strategies. Your goal is to pick ...

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Bayesian Odds Ratios can be used to compare models and allocate wealth to various models based on the relative probability that each particular model is "best." You could begin to look into it more on the wiki site.

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Have a look at my paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2259133 I checked Kelly formula and found the answer from it is exactly as Markowitz's theory. >Thus, most issues on mean-variance theory (e.g. noise of estimation for mean and >variance) applies here. Kelly is not exactly as Markowitz's theory but they are indeed closely ...

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The formula looks deceptively simple. Does it actually work? The formula is a correct approximation if the asset in question is not too volatile. It works good if a) you exactly know the parameters mu and sigma b) if you can commit a lot of trade In practice the parameters are often very roughly estimated. The rule of thumb is to reduce mu and ...

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