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2006 Whether to sell or hold a stock
Raymond Rishel
Commun. Inf. Syst. 6(3): 193-202 (2006).

Abstract

For a simple model of a stock, whose stock price is a geometric Brownian motion in which the drift rate changes back and forth between positive and negative values, optimal selling times are computed. An infinite optimal selling time meaning you should just hold the stock.

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Raymond Rishel. "Whether to sell or hold a stock." Commun. Inf. Syst. 6 (3) 193 - 202, 2006.

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Published: 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 6 July 2007

zbMATH: 1132.93351
MathSciNet: MR2347285

Keywords: buy and hold , Optimal stopping , stock selling times , variational inequalities

Rights: Copyright © 2006 International Press of Boston

Vol.6 • No. 3 • 2006
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