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EXFormer: A Multi-Scale Trend-Aware Transformer with Dynamic Variable Selection for Foreign Exchange Returns Prediction

Accurately forecasting daily exchange rate returns represents a longstanding challenge in international finance, as the exchange rate returns are driven by a multitude of correlated market factors and exhibit high-frequency fluctuations. This paper proposes EXFormer, a novel Transformer-based archit

Holy Grail Math 8 Rigor 8.5 ·  December 14, 2025

Stochastic Volatility Modelling with LSTM Networks: A Hybrid Approach for S&P 500 Index Volatility Forecasting

Accurate volatility forecasting is essential in banking, investment, and risk management, because expectations about future market movements directly influence current decisions. This study proposes a hybrid modelling framework that integrates a Stochastic Volatility model with a Long Short Term Mem

Holy Grail Math 8 Rigor 8.5 ·  December 13, 2025

Hybrid Models for Financial Forecasting: Combining Econometric, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Models

This research systematically develops and evaluates various hybrid modeling approaches by combining traditional econometric models (ARIMA and ARFIMA models) with machine learning and deep learning techniques (SVM, XGBoost, and LSTM models) to forecast financial time series. The empirical analysis is

Holy Grail Math 7 Rigor 9 ·  May 26, 2025

Alternative Loss Function in Evaluation of Transformer Models

The proper design and architecture of testing machine learning models, especially in their application to quantitative finance problems, is crucial. The most important aspect of this process is selecting an adequate loss function for training, validation, estimation purposes, and hyperparameter tuni

Holy Grail Math 6 Rigor 7 ·  July 22, 2025

Explainable Patterns in Cryptocurrency Microstructure

We document stable cross-asset patterns in cryptocurrency limit-order-book microstructure: the same engineered order book and trade features exhibit remarkably similar predictive importance and SHAP dependence shapes across assets spanning an order of magnitude in market capitalization (BTC, LTC, ET

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  January 31, 2026

A novel approach to trading strategy parameter optimization using double out-of-sample data and walk-forward techniques

This study introduces a novel approach to walk-forward optimization by parameterizing the lengths of training and testing windows. We demonstrate that the performance of a trading strategy using the Exponential Moving Average (EMA) evaluated within a walk-forward procedure based on the Robust Sharpe

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 8.5 ·  February 11, 2026

Overreaction as an indicator for momentum in algorithmic trading: A Case of AAPL stocks

This paper investigates whether short-term market overreactions can be systematically predicted and monetized as momentum signals using high-frequency emotional information and modern machine learning methods. Focusing on Apple Inc. (AAPL), we construct a comprehensive intraday dataset that combines

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  February 21, 2026

Systemic risk indicator based on implied and realized volatility

We propose a new measure of systemic risk to analyze the impact of the major financial market turmoils in the stock markets from 2000 to 2023 in the USA, Europe, Brazil, and Japan. Our Implied Volatility Realized Volatility Systemic Risk Indicator (IVRVSRI) shows that the reaction of stock markets v

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  July 10, 2023

Improving Realized LGD Approximation: A Novel Framework with XGBoost for Handling Missing Cash-Flow Data

The scope for the accurate calculation of the Loss Given Default (LGD) parameter is comprehensive in terms of financial data. In this research, we aim to explore methods for improving the approximation of realized LGD in conditions of limited access to the cash-flow data. We enhance the performance

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  June 25, 2024

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