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Hidden Order in Trades Predicts the Size of Price Moves

Financial markets exhibit an apparent paradox: while directional price movements remain largely unpredictable–consistent with weak-form efficiency–the magnitude of price changes displays systematic structure. Here we demonstrate that real-time order-flow entropy, computed from a 15-state Markov tran

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 8 ·  December 2, 2025

Forecast-to-Fill: Benchmark-Neutral Alpha and Billion-Dollar Capacity in Gold Futures (2015-2025)

We test whether simple, interpretable state variables-trend and momentum-can generate durable out-of-sample alpha in one of the world’s most liquid assets, gold. Using a rolling 10-year training and 6-month testing walk-forward from 2015 to 2025 (2,793 trading days), we convert a smoothed trend-mome

Street Traders Math 4.5 Rigor 9.2 ·  November 11, 2025

Discovery of a 13-Sharpe OOS Factor: Drift Regimes Unlock Hidden Cross-Sectional Predictability

We document a high-performing cross-sectional equity factor that achieves out-of-sample Sharpe ratios above 13 through regime-conditional signal activation. The strategy combines value and short-term reversal signals only during stock-specific drift regimes, defined as periods when individual stocks

Street Traders Math 4 Rigor 7 ·  November 16, 2025

Detecting AI Hallucinations in Finance: An Information-Theoretic Method Cuts Hallucination Rate by 92%

Large language models (LLMs) produce fluent but unsupported answers - hallucinations - limiting safe deployment in high-stakes domains. We propose ECLIPSE, a framework that treats hallucination as a mismatch between a model’s semantic entropy and the capacity of available evidence. We combine entrop

Lab Rats Math 7.5 Rigor 4 ·  December 2, 2025

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