“…The scientific literature on optimal trade execution problems deals with the optimization of trading schedules, when an investor faces the task of closing a position in an illiquid market. Incorporating random fluctuations of liquidity into models of optimal trade execution constitutes a highly active field of research (see, e.g., [1,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,16,17,18,19,20,22,24,26] and references therein).…”