Joint Latent Topic Discovery and Expectation Modeling for Financial Markets

In the pursuit of accurate and scalable quantitative methods for financial market analysis, the focus has shifted from individual stock models to those capturing interrelations between companies and their stocks. However, current relational stock methods are limited by their reliance on predefined s

June 1, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal execution and speculation with trade signals

We propose a price impact model where changes in prices are purely driven by the order flow in the market. The stochastic price impact of market orders and the arrival rates of limit and market orders are functions of the market liquidity process which reflects the balance of the demand and supply o

June 1, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Cost of Misspecifying Price Impact

Portfolio managers’ orders trade off return and trading cost predictions. Return predictions rely on alpha models, whereas price impact models quantify trading costs. This paper studies what happens when trades are based on an incorrect price impact model, so that the portfolio either over- or under

June 1, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Deep into The Domain Shift: Transfer Learning through Dependence Regularization

Classical Domain Adaptation methods acquire transferability by regularizing the overall distributional discrepancies between features in the source domain (labeled) and features in the target domain (unlabeled). They often do not differentiate whether the domain differences come from the marginals o

May 31, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Discrete $q$-exponential limit order cancellation time distribution

Modeling financial markets based on empirical data poses challenges in selecting the most appropriate models. Despite the abundance of empirical data available, researchers often face difficulties in identifying the best-fitting model. Long-range memory and self-similarity estimators, commonly used

May 31, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Improved Financial Forecasting via Quantum Machine Learning

Quantum algorithms have the potential to enhance machine learning across a variety of domains and applications. In this work, we show how quantum machine learning can be used to improve financial forecasting. First, we use classical and quantum Determinantal Point Processes to enhance Random Forest

May 31, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Modeling and evaluating conditional quantile dynamics in VaR forecasts

We focus on the time-varying modeling of VaR at a given coverage $τ$, assessing whether the quantiles of the distribution of the returns standardized by their conditional means and standard deviations exhibit predictable dynamics. Models are evaluated via simulation, determining the merits of the as

May 31, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Parameter Estimation Methods of Required Rate of Return

In this study, we introduce new estimation methods for the required rate of returns on equity and liabilities of private and public companies using the stochastic dividend discount model (DDM). To estimate the required rate of return on equity, we use the maximum likelihood method, the Bayesian meth

May 31, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Game of Competition for Risk

In this study, we present models where participants strategically select their risk levels and earn corresponding rewards, mirroring real-world competition across various sectors. Our analysis starts with a normal form game involving two players in a continuous action space, confirming the existence

May 30, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Generalized Autoregressive Score Trees and Forests

We propose methods to improve the forecasts from generalized autoregressive score (GAS) models (Creal et. al, 2013; Harvey, 2013) by localizing their parameters using decision trees and random forests. These methods avoid the curse of dimensionality faced by kernel-based approaches, and allow one to

May 30, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Exponential Utility Maximization in a Discrete Time Gaussian Framework

The aim of this short note is to present a solution to the discrete time exponential utility maximization problem in a case where the underlying asset has a multivariate normal distribution. In addition to the usual setting considered in Mathematical Finance, we also consider an investor who is info

May 29, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space

Integrating Different Informations for Portfolio Selection

Following the idea of Bayesian learning via Gaussian mixture model, we organically combine the backward-looking information contained in the historical data and the forward-looking information implied by the market portfolio, which is affected by heterogeneous expectations and noisy trading behavior

May 29, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

ChatGPT Informed Graph Neural Network for Stock Movement Prediction

ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, its potential for inferring dynamic network structures from temporal textual data, specifically financial news, remains an unexplored frontier. In this research, we introduce a novel fra

May 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Large Banks and Systemic Risk: Insights from a Mean-Field Game Model

This paper presents a dynamic game framework to analyze the role of large banks in interbank markets. By extending existing models, we incorporate a large bank as a dynamic decision-maker interacting with multiple small banks. Using the mean-field game methodology and convex analysis, best-response

May 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Comparative Analysis of Portfolio Optimization Using Mean-Variance, Hierarchical Risk Parity, and Reinforcement Learning Approaches on the Indian Stock Market

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the performances of three portfolio optimization approaches. Three approaches of portfolio optimization that are considered in this work are the mean-variance portfolio (MVP), hierarchical risk parity (HRP) portfolio, and reinforcement learning-based por

May 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Financial misstatement detection: a realistic evaluation

In this work, we examine the evaluation process for the task of detecting financial reports with a high risk of containing a misstatement. This task is often referred to, in the literature, as ``misstatement detection in financial reports’’. We provide an extensive review of the related literature.

May 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

On random number generators and practical market efficiency

Modern mainstream financial theory is underpinned by the efficient market hypothesis, which posits the rapid incorporation of relevant information into asset pricing. Limited prior studies in the operational research literature have investigated tests designed for random number generators to check f

May 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Accounting statement analysis at industry level. A gentle introduction to the compositional approach

Compositional data are contemporarily defined as positive vectors, the ratios among whose elements are of interest to the researcher. Financial statement analysis by means of accounting ratios a.k.a. financial ratios fulfils this definition to the letter. Compositional data analysis solves the major

May 26, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Causality between investor sentiment and the shares return on the Moroccan and Tunisian financial markets

This paper aims to test the relationship between investor sentiment and the profitability of stocks listed on two emergent financial markets, the Moroccan and Tunisian ones. Two indirect measures of investor sentiment are used, SENT and ARMS. These sentiment indicators show that there is an importan

May 26, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Critical density for network reconstruction

The structure of many financial networks is protected by privacy and has to be inferred from aggregate observables. Here we consider one of the most successful network reconstruction methods, producing random graphs with desired link density and where the observed constraints (related to the market

May 26, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space