Automated Market Makers: Toward More Profitable Liquidity Provisioning Strategies

To trade tokens in cryptoeconomic systems, automated market makers (AMMs) typically rely on liquidity providers (LPs) that deposit tokens in exchange for rewards. To profit from such rewards, LPs must use effective liquidity provisioning strategies. However, LPs lack guidance for developing such str

January 14, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Dynamic loan portfolio management in a three time step model

This paper studies the bank dynamic decision problem in the intermediate time step for a discrete-time setup. We have considered a three-time-step model. Initially, the banks raise money through debt and equity and invest in different types of loans. It liquidates its assets and raises new funds at

January 14, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Follow the Leader: Enhancing Systematic Trend-Following Using Network Momentum

We present a systematic, trend-following strategy, applied to commodity futures markets, that combines univariate trend indicators with cross-sectional trend indicators that capture so-called {"\em momentum spillover"}, which can occur when there is a lead-lag relationship between the trending behav

January 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

How low-cost AI universal approximators reshape market efficiency

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) famously stated that prices fully reflect the information available to traders. This critically depends on the transfer of information into prices through trading strategies. Traders optimise their strategy with models of increasing complexity that identify the

January 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Improving DeFi Accessibility through Efficient Liquidity Provisioning with Deep Reinforcement Learning

This paper applies deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize liquidity provisioning in Uniswap v3, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol implementing an automated market maker (AMM) model with concentrated liquidity. We model the liquidity provision task as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and

January 13, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Pricing Quanto and Composite Contracts with Local-Correlation Models

Pricing composite and quanto contracts requires a joint model of both the underlying asset and the exchange rate. In this contribution, we explore the potential of local-correlation models to address the challenges of calibrating synthetic quanto forward contracts and composite options quoted in the

January 13, 2025 · 1 min · thequant.space

Discrete-time weak approximation of a Black-Scholes model with drift and volatility Markov switching

We consider a continuous-time financial market with an asset whose price is modeled by a linear stochastic differential equation with drift and volatility switching driven by a uniformly ergodic jump Markov process with a countable state space (in fact, this is a Black-Scholes model with Markov swit

January 12, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Pricing American options under rough volatility using deep-signatures and signature-kernels

We extend the signature-based primal and dual solutions to the optimal stopping problem recently introduced in [Bayer et al.: Primal and dual optimal stopping with signatures, to appear in Finance & Stochastics 2025], by integrating deep-signature and signature-kernel learning methodologies. These a

January 12, 2025 · 1 min · thequant.space

Sequential Portfolio Selection under Latent Side Information-Dependence Structure: Optimality and Universal Learning Algorithms

This paper investigates the investment problem of constructing an optimal no-short sequential portfolio strategy in a market with a latent dependence structure between asset prices and partly unobservable side information, which is often high-dimensional. The results demonstrate that a dynamic strat

January 12, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Modern Paradigm for Algorithmic Trading

We introduce a novel framework for developing fully-automated trading model algorithms. Unlike the traditional approach, which is grounded in analytical complexity favored by most quantitative analysts, we propose a paradigm shift that embraces real-world complexity. This approach leverages key conc

January 10, 2025 · 1 min · thequant.space

Exploratory Randomization for Discrete-Time Linear Exponential Quadratic Gaussian (LEQG) Problem

We investigate exploratory randomization for an extended linear-exponential-quadratic-Gaussian (LEQG) control problem in discrete time. This extended control problem is related to the structure of risk-sensitive investment management applications. We introduce exploration through a randomization of

January 10, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Heath-Jarrow-Morton meet lifted Heston in energy markets for joint historical and implied calibration

In energy markets, joint historical and implied calibration is of paramount importance for practitioners yet notoriously challenging due to the need to align historical correlations of futures contracts with implied volatility smiles from the option market. We address this crucial problem with a par

January 10, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal Reinsurance under Endogenous Default and Background Risk

This paper studies an optimal reinsurance problem for a utility-maximizing insurer, subject to the reinsurer’s endogenous default and background risk. An endogenous default occurs when the insurer’s contractual indemnity exceeds the reinsurer’s available reserve, which is random due to the backgroun

January 10, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Off-Policy Evaluation and Counterfactual Methods in Dynamic Auction Environments

Counterfactual estimators are critical for learning and refining policies using logged data, a process known as Off-Policy Evaluation (OPE). OPE allows researchers to assess new policies without costly experiments, speeding up the evaluation process. Online experimental methods, such as A/B tests, a

January 9, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Intraday Bitcoin Response to Tether Minting and Burning Events: Asymmetry, Investor Sentiment, And Whale Alerts On Twitter

Tether Limited has the sole authority to create (mint) and destroy (burn) Tether stablecoins (USDT). This paper investigates Bitcoin’s response to USDT supply change events between 2014 and 2021 and identifies an interesting asymmetry between Bitcoin’s responses to USDT minting and burning events. B

January 9, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Time-Varying Bidirectional Causal Relationships Between Transaction Fees and Economic Activity of Subsystems Utilizing the Ethereum Blockchain Network

The Ethereum blockchain network enables transaction processing and smart-contract execution through levies of transaction fees, commonly known as gas fees. This framework mediates economic participation via a market-based mechanism for gas fees, permitting users to offer higher gas fees to expedite

January 9, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

A mixture transition distribution approach to portfolio optimization

Understanding the dependencies among financial assets is critical for portfolio optimization. Traditional approaches based on correlation networks often fail to capture the nonlinear and directional relationships that exist in financial markets. In this study, we construct directed and weighted fina

January 8, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

FinSphere, a Real-Time Stock Analysis Agent Powered by Instruction-Tuned LLMs and Domain Tools

Current financial large language models (FinLLMs) struggle with two critical limitations: the absence of objective evaluation metrics to assess the quality of stock analysis reports and a lack of depth in stock analysis, which impedes their ability to generate professional-grade insights. To address

January 8, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Sharpe Ratios for Linear Predictive Models

We study how much the in-sample performance of trading strategies based on linear predictive models is reduced out-of-sample due to overfitting. More specifically, we compute the in- and out-of-sample means and variances of the corresponding PnLs and use these to derive a closed-form approximation f

January 7, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space

Market Making with Fads, Informed, and Uninformed Traders

We characterise the solutions to a continuous-time optimal liquidity provision problem in a market populated by informed and uninformed traders. In our model, the asset price exhibits fads – these are short-term deviations from the fundamental value of the asset. Conditional on the value of the fad,

January 7, 2025 · 2 min · thequant.space