同学你好,关于stale price, 原版书是这么说的,In some asset markets, lack of security trading may lead to what is called stale price bias. For securities with stale prices, measured correlations may be lower than expected and, depending on the time period chosen, measured standard deviation may be higher or lower than it would be if actual prices existed.
所以stale price的结果,1)correlation lower,2)根据时间期的不同选择,standard deviation higher or lower, 这里举个比较极端的例子,某种资产2016年都交易很活跃,但是2017年交易非常不活跃,那么和benchmark来比的话,2016年的standard deviation高,2017年的standard deviation低。
整体在答题的时候看对sharp ratio的影响,因为题目也并不会给出时间段,还是以correlation低,standard deviation低,会高估sharp ratio来作答。