Bitcoin Price Prediction using Machine Learning and Combinatorial Fusion Analysis

In this work, we propose to apply a new model fusion and learning paradigm, known as Combinatorial Fusion Analysis (CFA), to the field of Bitcoin price prediction. Price prediction of financial product has always been a big topic in finance, as the successful prediction of the price can yield signif

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Exploring the Interpretability of Forecasting Models for Energy Balancing Market

The balancing market in the energy sector plays a critical role in physically and financially balancing the supply and demand. Modeling dynamics in the balancing market can provide valuable insights and prognosis for power grid stability and secure energy supply. While complex machine learning model

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Knowledge-Integrated Representation Learning for Crypto Anomaly Detection under Extreme Label Scarcity; Relational Domain-Logic Integration with Retrieval-Grounded Context and Path-Level Explanations

Detecting anomalous trajectories in decentralized crypto networks is fundamentally challenged by extreme label scarcity and the adaptive evasion strategies of illicit actors. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) effectively capture local structural patterns, they struggle to internalize multi hop, log

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Market Making and Transient Impact in Spot FX

Dealers in foreign exchange markets provide bid and ask prices to their clients at which they are happy to buy and sell, respectively. To manage risk, dealers can skew their quotes and hedge in the interbank market. Hedging offers certainty but comes with transaction costs and market impact. Optimal

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal Underreporting and Competitive Equilibrium

This paper develops a dynamic insurance market model comprising two competing insurance companies and a continuum of insureds, and examines the interaction between strategic underreporting by the insureds and competitive pricing between the insurance companies under a Bonus-Malus System (BMS) framew

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Spectral Dynamics and Regularization for High-Dimensional Copulas

We introduce a novel model for time-varying, asymmetric, tail-dependent copulas in high dimensions that incorporates both spectral dynamics and regularization. The dynamics of the dependence matrix’ eigenvalues are modeled in a score-driven way, while biases in the unconditional eigenvalue spectrum

January 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Admissible Information Structures and the Non-Existence of Global Martingale Pricing

No-arbitrage asset pricing characterizes valuation through the existence of equivalent martingale measures relative to a filtration and a class of admissible trading strategies. In practice, pricing is performed across multiple asset classes driven by economic variables that are only partially spann

January 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Stablecoin Design with Adversarial-Robust Multi-Agent Systems via Trust-Weighted Signal Aggregation

Algorithmic stablecoins promise decentralized monetary stability by maintaining a target peg through programmatic reserve management. Yet, their reserve controllers remain vulnerable to regime-blind optimization, calibrating risk parameters on fair-weather data while ignoring tail events that precip

January 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Tail Structure and the Ordering of the Standard Deviation and Gini Mean Difference

We investigate the ordering between two fundamental measures of dispersion for real-valued risks: the standard deviation (SD) and the Gini mean difference (GMD). Our analysis is driven by a single structural object, namely the mean excess function of the pairwise difference $|X - X’|$. We show that

January 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Autonomous Market Intelligence: Agentic AI Nowcasting Predicts Stock Returns

Can fully agentic AI nowcast stock returns? We deploy a state-of-the-art Large Language Model to evaluate the attractiveness of each Russell 1000 stock daily, starting from April 2025 when AI web interfaces enabled real-time search. Our data contribution is unique along three dimensions. First, the

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Distributional Fitting and Tail Analysis of Lead-Time Compositions: Nights vs. Revenue on Airbnb

We analyze daily lead-time distributions for two Airbnb demand metrics, Nights Booked (volume) and Gross Booking Value (revenue), treating each day’s allocation across 0-365 days as a compositional vector. The data span 2,557 days from January 2019 through December 2025 in a large North American reg

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Automated Liquidity: Market Impact, Cycles, and De-pegging Risk

Three traits of decentralized finance are studied. First, the market impact function is derived for optimal-growth liquidity providers. For a standard random walk, the classic square-root impact is recovered. An extension is then derived to fit general fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. These

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Fast Times, Slow Times: Timescale Separation in Financial Timeseries Data

Financial time series exhibit multiscale behavior, with interaction between multiple processes operating on different timescales. This paper introduces a method for separating these processes using variance and tail stationarity criteria, framed as generalized eigenvalue problems. The approach allow

January 16, 2026 · 1 min · thequant.space

FSL-BDP: Federated Survival Learning with Bayesian Differential Privacy for Credit Risk Modeling

Credit risk models are a critical decision-support tool for financial institutions, yet tightening data-protection rules (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) increasingly prohibit cross-border sharing of borrower data, even as these models benefit from cross-institution learning. Traditional default prediction suffer

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

KANHedge: Efficient Hedging of High-Dimensional Options Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Network-Based BSDE Solver

High-dimensional option pricing and hedging present significant challenges in quantitative finance, where traditional PDE-based methods struggle with the curse of dimensionality. The BSDE framework offers a computationally efficient alternative to PDE-based methods, and recently proposed deep BSDE s

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Multiscaling in the Rough Bergomi Model: A Tale of Tails

The rough Bergomi (rBergomi) model, characterised by its roughness parameter $H$, has been shown to exhibit multiscaling behaviour as $H$ approaches zero. Multiscaling has profound implications for financial modelling: it affects extreme risk estimation, influences optimal portfolio allocation acros

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal Abatement Schedules for Excess Carbon Emissions Towards a Net-Zero Target

Achieving net-zero carbon emissions requires a transformation of energy systems, industrial processes, and consumption patterns. In particular, a transition towards that goal involves a gradual reduction of excess carbon emissions that are not essential for the well-functioning of society. In this p

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Regret-Driven Portfolios: LLM-Guided Smart Clustering for Optimal Allocation

We attempt to mitigate the persistent tradeoff between risk and return in medium- to long-term portfolio management. This paper proposes a novel LLM-guided no-regret portfolio allocation framework that integrates online learning dynamics, market sentiment indicators, and large language model (LLM)-b

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

SANOS Smooth strictly Arbitrage-free Non-parametric Option Surfaces

We present a simple, numerically efficient but highly flexible non-parametric method to construct representations of option price surfaces which are both smooth and strictly arbitrage-free across time and strike. The method can be viewed as a smooth generalization of the widely-known linear interpol

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Widening Profitability Gap between Renewable and Fossil Power Firms in Europe

Mobilising private capital is a critical bottleneck of the energy transition, yet recent crisis-driven windfall profits for fossil power firms suggest that market signals may still favour carbon-intensive assets. Here we analyse a panel of 900 European power firms (2001-2023) to resolve whether thes

January 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space