Improving Portfolio Performance Using a Novel Method for Predicting Financial Regimes

This work extends a previous work in regime detection, which allowed trading positions to be profitably adjusted when a new regime was detected, to ex ante prediction of regimes, leading to substantial performance improvements over the earlier model, over all three asset classes considered (equities

September 20, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Transformers versus LSTMs for electronic trading

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, long short term memory (LSTM), one kind of recurrent neural network (RNN), has been widely applied in time series prediction. Like RNN, Transformer is designed to handle the sequential data. As Transformer achieved great success in Natural Langu

September 20, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Comparing effects of price limit and circuit breaker in stock exchanges by an agent-based model

The prevention of rapidly and steeply falling market prices is vital to avoid financial crisis. To this end, some stock exchanges implement a price limit or a circuit breaker, and there has been intensive investigation into which regulation best prevents rapid and large variations in price. In this

September 19, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Derivatives Sensitivities Computation under Heston Model on GPU

This report investigates the computation of option Greeks for European and Asian options under the Heston stochastic volatility model on GPU. We first implemented the exact simulation method proposed by Broadie and Kaya and used it as a baseline for precision and speed. We then proposed a novel meth

September 19, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Mean Absolute Directional Loss as a New Loss Function for Machine Learning Problems in Algorithmic Investment Strategies

This paper investigates the issue of an adequate loss function in the optimization of machine learning models used in the forecasting of financial time series for the purpose of algorithmic investment strategies (AIS) construction. We propose the Mean Absolute Directional Loss (MADL) function, solvi

September 19, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

PAMS: Platform for Artificial Market Simulations

This paper presents a new artificial market simulation platform, PAMS: Platform for Artificial Market Simulations. PAMS is developed as a Python-based simulator that is easily integrated with deep learning and enabling various simulation that requires easy users’ modification. In this paper, we demo

September 19, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space

Sizing Strategies for Algorithmic Trading in Volatile Markets: A Study of Backtesting and Risk Mitigation Analysis

Backtest is a way of financial risk evaluation which helps to analyze how our trading algorithm would work in markets with past time frame. The high volatility situation has always been a critical situation which creates challenges for algorithmic traders. The paper investigates different models of

September 16, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Closed-form solutions for VIX derivatives in a Legendre empirical model

In this paper, we introduce a data-driven, single-parameter Markov diffusion model for the VIX. The volatility factor evolves in $(-1,1)$ with a uniform invariant distribution ensured by Legendre polynomials, mapped to the empirical distribution. We derive analytical series solutions for VIX futures

September 15, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Cryptocurrency in the Aftermath: Unveiling the Impact of the SVB Collapse

In this paper, we explore the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, with a particular focus on its impact on crypto markets. We conduct a multi-dimensional investigation, which includes a factual summary, analysis of user sentiment, and examination of market performance. Based on such

September 15, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space

Decentralised Finance and Automated Market Making: Predictable Loss and Optimal Liquidity Provision

Constant product markets with concentrated liquidity (CL) are the most popular type of automated market makers. In this paper, we characterise the continuous-time wealth dynamics of strategic LPs who dynamically adjust their range of liquidity provision in CL pools. Their wealth results from fee inc

September 15, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Dynamic Time Warping for Lead-Lag Relationships in Lagged Multi-Factor Models

In multivariate time series systems, lead-lag relationships reveal dependencies between time series when they are shifted in time relative to each other. Uncovering such relationships is valuable in downstream tasks, such as control, forecasting, and clustering. By understanding the temporal depende

September 15, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

InvestLM: A Large Language Model for Investment using Financial Domain Instruction Tuning

We present a new financial domain large language model, InvestLM, tuned on LLaMA-65B (Touvron et al., 2023), using a carefully curated instruction dataset related to financial investment. Inspired by less-is-more-for-alignment (Zhou et al., 2023), we manually curate a small yet diverse instruction d

September 15, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

On Sparse Grid Interpolation for American Option Pricing with Multiple Underlying Assets

In this work, we develop a novel efficient quadrature and sparse grid based polynomial interpolation method to price American options with multiple underlying assets. The approach is based on first formulating the pricing of American options using dynamic programming, and then employing static spars

September 15, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Quantifying Credit Portfolio sensitivity to asset correlations with interpretable generative neural networks

In this research, we propose a novel approach for the quantification of credit portfolio Value-at-Risk (VaR) sensitivity to asset correlations with the use of synthetic financial correlation matrices generated with deep learning models. In previous work Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) were em

September 15, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Analysis of frequent trading effects of various machine learning models

In recent years, high-frequency trading has emerged as a crucial strategy in stock trading. This study aims to develop an advanced high-frequency trading algorithm and compare the performance of three different mathematical models: the combination of the cross-entropy loss function and the quasi-New

September 14, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Applying Deep Learning to Calibrate Stochastic Volatility Models

Stochastic volatility models, where the volatility is a stochastic process, can capture most of the essential stylized facts of implied volatility surfaces and give more realistic dynamics of the volatility smile/skew. However, they come with the significant issue that they take too long to calibrat

September 14, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Long-Term Mean-Variance Optimization Under Mean-Reverting Equity Returns

This paper studies the mean-variance optimal portfolio choice of an investor pre-committed to a deterministic investment policy in continuous time in a market with mean-reversion in the risk-free rate and the equity risk-premium. In the tradition of Markowitz, optimal policies are restricted to a su

September 14, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Market-GAN: Adding Control to Financial Market Data Generation with Semantic Context

Financial simulators play an important role in enhancing forecasting accuracy, managing risks, and fostering strategic financial decision-making. Despite the development of financial market simulation methodologies, existing frameworks often struggle with adapting to specialized simulation context.

September 14, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Profit and loss attribution: An empirical study

The profit and loss (p&l) attrition for each business year into different risk or risk factors (e.g., interest rates, credit spreads, foreign exchange rate etc.) is a regulatory requirement, e.g., under Solvency 2. Three different decomposition principles are prevalent: one-at-a-time (OAT), sequenti

September 14, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Epps Effect and the Signature of Short-Term Momentum Traders

It is a well-documented fact that the correlation function of the returns on two “related” assets is generally increasing as a function of the horizon $h$ of these returns. This phenomenon, termed the Epps Effect, holds true in a wide variety of markets, and there is a large body of literature devot

September 13, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space