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Alpha-R1: Alpha Screening with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Signal decay and regime shifts pose recurring challenges for data-driven investment strategies in non-stationary markets. Conventional time-series and machine learning approaches, which rely primarily on historical correlations, often struggle to generalize when the economic environment changes. Whi

Holy Grail Math 6 Rigor 8.5 Code ·  December 29, 2025

Trade-R1: Bridging Verifiable Rewards to Stochastic Environments via Process-Level Reasoning Verification

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to achieve remarkable reasoning in domains like mathematics and coding, where verifiable rewards provide clear signals. However, extending this paradigm to financial decision is challenged by the market’s stochastic nature: rewards

Holy Grail Math 6 Rigor 8 ·  January 7, 2026

Evaluating Investment Performance: The p-index and Empirical Efficient Frontier

The empirical results have shown that firstly, with one-week holding period and reinvesting, for SSE Composite Index stocks, the highest p-ratio investment strategy produces the largest annualized rate of return; and for NYSE Composite Index stocks, all the three strategies with both one-week and on

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 6 ·  October 13, 2025

ContestTrade: A Multi-Agent Trading System Based on Internal Contest Mechanism

In financial trading, large language model (LLM)-based agents demonstrate significant potential. However, the high sensitivity to market noise undermines the performance of LLM-based trading systems. To address this limitation, we propose a novel multi-agent system featuring an internal competitive

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 8 Code ·  August 1, 2025

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