LLM Agents Do Not Replicate Human Market Traders: Evidence From Experimental Finance

This paper explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave in a classic experimental finance paradigm widely known for eliciting bubbles and crashes in human participants. We adapt an established trading design, where traders buy and sell a risky asset with a known fundamental value, and introduce

February 18, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Utilizing Effective Dynamic Graph Learning to Shield Financial Stability from Risk Propagation

Financial risks can propagate across both tightly coupled temporal and spatial dimensions, posing significant threats to financial stability. Moreover, risks embedded in unlabeled data are often difficult to detect. To address these challenges, we introduce GraphShield, a novel approach with three k

February 18, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

When defaults cannot be hedged: an actuarial approach to xVA calculations via local risk-minimization

We consider the pricing and hedging of counterparty credit risk and funding when there is no possibility to hedge the jump to default of either the bank or the counterparty. This represents the situation which is most often encountered in practice, due to the absence of quoted corporate bonds or CDS

February 18, 2025 · 1 min · thequant.space

A Cholesky decomposition-based asset selection heuristic for sparse tangent portfolio optimization

In practice, including large number of assets in mean-variance portfolios can lead to higher transaction costs and management fees. To address this, one common approach is to select a smaller subset of assets from the larger pool, constructing more efficient portfolios. As a solution, we propose a n

February 17, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A deep BSDE approach for the simultaneous pricing and delta-gamma hedging of large portfolios consisting of high-dimensional multi-asset Bermudan options

A deep BSDE approach is presented for the pricing and delta-gamma hedging of high-dimensional Bermudan options, with applications in portfolio risk management. Large portfolios of a mixture of multi-asset European and Bermudan derivatives are cast into the framework of discretely reflected BSDEs. Th

February 17, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

FLAG-Trader: Fusion LLM-Agent with Gradient-based Reinforcement Learning for Financial Trading

Large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned on multimodal financial data have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities in various financial tasks. However, they often struggle with multi-step, goal-oriented scenarios in interactive financial markets, such as trading, where complex agentic approach

February 17, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

HedgeAgents: A Balanced-aware Multi-agent Financial Trading System

As automated trading gains traction in the financial market, algorithmic investment strategies are increasingly prominent. While Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agent-based models exhibit promising potential in real-time market analysis and trading decisions, they still experience a significant -20

February 17, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Market-Derived Financial Sentiment Analysis: Context-Aware Language Models for Crypto Forecasting

Financial Sentiment Analysis (FSA) traditionally relies on human-annotated sentiment labels to infer investor sentiment and forecast market movements. However, inferring the potential market impact of words based on their human-perceived intentions is inherently challenging. We hypothesize that the

February 17, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Generalized Factor Neural Network Model for High-dimensional Regression

We tackle the challenges of modeling high-dimensional data sets, particularly those with latent low-dimensional structures hidden within complex, non-linear, and noisy relationships. Our approach enables a seamless integration of concepts from non-parametric regression, factor models, and neural net

February 16, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Time-consistent portfolio selection with strictly monotone mean-variance preference

This paper is devoted to time-consistent control problems of portfolio selection with strictly monotone mean-variance preferences. These preferences are variational modifications of the conventional mean-variance preferences, and remain time-inconsistent as in mean-variance optimization problems. To

February 16, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Distillation-based Future-aware Graph Neural Network for Stock Trend Prediction

Stock trend prediction involves forecasting the future price movements by analyzing historical data and various market indicators. With the advancement of machine learning, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively employed in stock prediction due to their powerful capability to capture spa

February 15, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Heterogenous Macro-Finance Model: A Mean-field Game Approach

We investigate the full dynamics of capital allocation and wealth distribution of heterogeneous agents in a frictional economy during booms and busts using tools from mean-field games. Two groups in our models, namely the expert and the household, are interconnected within and between their classes

February 15, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Price manipulation schemes of new crypto-tokens in decentralized exchanges

Blockchain technology has revolutionized financial markets by enabling decentralized exchanges (DEXs) that operate without intermediaries. Uniswap V2, a leading DEX, facilitates the rapid creation and trading of new tokens, which offer high return potential but exposing investors to significant risk

February 14, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A class of locally state-dependent models for forward curves

We present a dynamic model for forward curves within the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework under the Musiela parametrization. The forward curves take values in a function space H, and their dynamics follows a stochastic partial differential equation with state-dependent coefficients. In particular, the

February 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Assessing Generative AI value in a public sector context: evidence from a field experiment

The emergence of Generative AI (Gen AI) has motivated an interest in understanding how it could be used to enhance productivity across various tasks. We add to research results for the performance impact of Gen AI on complex knowledge-based tasks in a public sector setting. In a pre-registered exper

February 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

LOB-Bench: Benchmarking Generative AI for Finance -- an Application to Limit Order Book Data

While financial data presents one of the most challenging and interesting sequence modelling tasks due to high noise, heavy tails, and strategic interactions, progress in this area has been hindered by the lack of consensus on quantitative evaluation paradigms. To address this, we present LOB-Bench,

February 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Quantifying Cryptocurrency Unpredictability: A Comprehensive Study of Complexity and Forecasting

This paper offers a thorough examination of the univariate predictability in cryptocurrency time-series. By exploiting a combination of complexity measure and model predictions we explore the cryptocurrencies time-series forecasting task focusing on the exchange rate in USD of Litecoin, Binance Coin

February 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Utilizing Pre-trained and Large Language Models for 10-K Items Segmentation

Extracting specific items from 10-K reports is challenging due to variations in document formats and item presentation. To improve over traditional rule-based approaches, this study introduces and compares two advanced item segmentation methods: (1) GPT4ItemSeg, using a novel line-ID-based prompting

February 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Analyzing Communicability and Connectivity in the Indian Stock Market During Crises

Understanding how information flows through the financial networks is important, especially during times of market turbulence. Unlike traditional assumptions where information travels along the shortest paths, real-world diffusion processes often follow multiple routes. To capture this complexity, w

February 12, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Marginal Price Optimization

We introduce a new framework for optimal routing and arbitrage in AMM driven markets. This framework improves on the original best-practice convex optimization by restricting the search to the boundary of the optimal space. We can parameterize this boundary using a set of prices, and a potentially v

February 12, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space