Magic strikes for variance and gamma contracts, and other attainable claims

Building on the forest expansion of Alòs, Gatheral and Radoičić and on the explicit Bergomi-Guyon smile expansion derived by Bourgey and Gatheral (2026), we derive fixed-point approximations, in terms of the implied total variance at a small number of magic strikes, for the fair values of power payo

September 27, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Oracle-Parametrized Constant Function Market Makers: From Price Feeds to Pricing Rules

This paper introduces oracle-parametrized automated market makers (OP-AMMs), i.e., automated market makers whose quoted price depends jointly on the pool reserves and an external oracle price. In doing so, we extend the information-agnostic AMM framework to settings, such as tokenized securities, fo

September 27, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Taming the Greeks: Option Portfolios with Inductive Biases

We present an end-to-end deep learning framework for systematic options trading that directly embeds hedging behavior through explicit control of portfolio-level risk exposures. While neural networks trained to optimize risk-adjusted performance have been shown to outperform traditional rules-based

September 27, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Affine Pricing Models from Group Quantization and Holonomy

The analytic tractability of affine pricing models is usually expressed through two complementary formulations: a coordinate-space pricing operator and an exponential-affine transform representation governed by generalized Riccati equations. We develop \emph{Affine Holonomy Group Quantization} (AHGQ

September 24, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Cost-Sensitive Online Window Size Selection for Portfolio Management

This paper investigates cost-sensitive online window size selection for portfolio management under changing market conditions. Specifically, we propose a two-level framework that constructs portfolios using candidate window sizes and dynamically aggregates them through online learning. By treating c

September 24, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Functional Architecture of European Electricity Trading Markets: Requirements for AI Supported Trading Systems under Regulatory Constraints

European electricity trading in the EU operates as a constrained multi-layer system in which legal design, exchange microstructure, and network physics are executed jointly across forward, day-ahead, intraday, and balancing horizons. This paper develops a functional architecture for AI-supported tra

September 24, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Cross-Section of Stock Returns and AI Exposure

We study 380 trillion tokens of realized AI consumption across more than four hundred LLMs. We build a high-frequency AI factor and show that a long-short strategy based on firms’ AI exposure earns significantly positive returns. The average strategy return is larger based on intensive, frontier-ori

September 24, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Compliant AI Infrastructure for Regulated Finance: A tiered multi-agent framework with DLT audit trails for financial operations in DACH

We present a compliance-first architecture for AI in regulated finance that treats regulation as an orientation layer rather than a deterministic ruleset. A matrix of regulatory intent and exposure provides a compact classification handle, which a governed policy compiler then maps into concrete pro

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Do Two On-Chain Observation Pipelines See the Same Tokens? Cross-Pipeline Coverage on the Solana pump.fun Launchpad

On-chain studies of memecoin launchpads usually rely on one data-collection pipeline, yet whether differently configured pipelines observe the same tokens is rarely measured. This paper compares the output mint sets of two separately configured pipelines from one research programme on the Solana pum

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

FedIncome: Federated Learning for Income Estimation in Digital Lending Under Data Sovereignty Constraints

Verified income is often unavailable in digital loan applications, forcing lenders to rely on reported income and potentially leading to over-lending, overly conservative offers, or rejection of creditworthy applicants. Cross-institutional data-sharing constraints make this problem especially diffic

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Fee Implied Volatility on Uniswap v3: A DEX Native Proxy and Its Limits

Narrow Uniswap v3 liquidity ranges resemble short dated options, and Panoptic’s streaming premium echoes the short maturity concentration of Black-Scholes theta near the strike. This motivates a natural question: can implied volatility be extracted from Uniswap v3 and Panoptic using only on chain ob

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Gatheral's Conjecture Revisited

We consider the Heston model with perfect negative spot–variance correlation and its one-dimensional local-volatility projection. Let $I_T^{\mathrm H}$ and $I_T^{\mathrm{LV}}$ denote their respective integrated variances over $[0,T]$. We establish the inequality [ \mathbb{E}\bigl[(I_T^{\mathrm H}-

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Leaky-integrator reconstruction: taming error accumulation in recursive differenced time-series forecasting

Recursive differenced forecasting, the standard remedy for non-stationarity, predicts one-step changes and integrates them by cumulative summation. We show that this reconstruction is a discrete integrator with a pole on the unit circle, so the biased increment errors of a learned nonlinear model ar

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Market Completeness and Optional Projections under Restricted Information

In a finite discrete-time market, trading decisions may be predictable with respect to a filtration that does not adapt asset prices. The first fundamental theorem then characterizes absence of arbitrage by measures under which the optional projection of discounted prices is a martingale. We examine

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Model-agnostic noise reduction for high-dimensional time series data

We develop a model-agnostic framework for noise reduction in high-dimensional time series that explicitly targets optimal recovery of a low-dimensional latent dynamic component contaminated by observational white noise. Under the assumption that the latent dynamics live in a low-dimensional linear d

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Multi-Agent AI Architecture for Regulated Insurers: A generic AI framework under Solvency II and the AI Act in Austria and Germany

This paper proposes a formal multi-agent architecture for implementing enterprise AI in regulated insurance firms, integrating economic theory with institutional design. The framework synthesises three core theoretical perspectives: Arrow’s risk pooling theory to formalise risk transformation under

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Proof of Stake economy under centralized exchanges--a mean field model

We consider the interaction between centralized trading and decentralized Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain ecosystems. Motivated by the increasing dominance of centralized exchanges and the institutionalization of crypto markets, we study how trading activities on centralized exchanges affect staking

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Rough Bergomi turns grey

We propose a tractable extension of the rough Bergomi model, replacing the fractional Brownian motion with a generalised grey Brownian motion, which we show to be reminiscent of models with stochastic volatility of volatility. This extension breaks away from the log-Normal assumption of rough Bergom

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

When Trust Attracts Fraud: AI and Trust Arbitrage

Trust can attract fraud when it delays verification. We develop a two-market signaling model in which generative AI lowers fabrication, verification, and targeting costs. When fabrication becomes profitable before verification, claim credibility first falls and later recovers. Across markets, higher

September 23, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Practical Guide on Graphical Model Validation

This manuscript formalizes the most popular model validation tools used in general insurance actuarial modeling. These include graphical tools like calibration plots, actual-vs-expected plots, lift charts, Murphy diagrams, as well as classical statistical tools such as Bregman losses, deviance losse

September 22, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space