Resisting Manipulative Bots in Memecoin Copy Trading: A Multi-Agent Approach with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

The launch of $Trump coin ignited a wave in meme coin investment. Copy trading, as a strategy-agnostic approach that eliminates the need for deep trading knowledge, quickly gains widespread popularity in the meme coin market. However, copy trading is not a guarantee of profitability due to the preva

January 13, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Systemic Risk in DeFi: A Network-Based Fragility Analysis of TVL Dynamics

Systemic risk refers to the overall vulnerability arising from the high degree of interconnectedness and interdependence within the financial system. In the rapidly developing decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, numerous studies have analyzed systemic risk through specific channels such as liqui

January 13, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Systemic Risk Surveillance

Following several episodes of financial market turmoil in recent decades, changes in systemic risk have drawn growing attention. Therefore, we propose surveillance schemes for systemic risk, which allow to detect misspecified systemic risk forecasts in an “online” fashion. This enables daily monitor

January 13, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

XGBoost Forecasting of NEPSE Index Log Returns with Walk Forward Validation

This study develops a robust machine learning framework for one-step-ahead forecasting of daily log-returns in the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) Index using the XGBoost regressor. A comprehensive feature set is engineered, including lagged log-returns (up to 30 days) and established technical indicat

January 13, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Crypto Pricing with Hidden Factors

We estimate risk premia in the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns using the Giglio-Xiu (2021) three-pass approach, allowing for omitted latent factors alongside observed stock-market and crypto-market factors. Using weekly data on a broad universe of large cryptocurrencies, we find that crypto

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Enhancing Portfolio Optimization with Deep Learning Insights

Our work focuses on deep learning (DL) portfolio optimization, tackling challenges in long-only, multi-asset strategies across market cycles. We propose training models with limited regime data using pre-training techniques and leveraging transformer architectures for state variable inclusion. Evalu

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Non-Convex Portfolio Optimization via Energy-Based Models: A Comparative Analysis Using the Thermodynamic HypergRaphical Model Library (THRML) for Index Tracking

Portfolio optimization under cardinality constraints transforms the classical Markowitz mean-variance problem from a convex quadratic problem into an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. This paper introduces a novel approach using THRML (Thermodynamic HypergRaphical Model Library), a JAX-bas

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal Option Portfolios for Student t Returns

We provide an explicit solution for optimal option portfolios under variance and Value at Risk (VaR) minimization when the underlying returns follow a Student t-distribution. The novelty of our paper is the departure from the traditional normal returns setting. Our main contribution is the methodolo

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Physics-Informed Singular-Value Learning for Cross-Covariances Forecasting in Financial Markets

A new wave of work on covariance cleaning and nonlinear shrinkage has delivered asymptotically optimal analytical solutions for large covariance matrices. Building on this progress, these ideas have been generalized to empirical cross-covariance matrices, whose singular-value shrinkage characterizes

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Reinforcement Learning for Micro-Level Claims Reserving

Outstanding claim liabilities are revised repeatedly as claims develop, yet most modern reserving models are trained as one-shot predictors and typically learn only from settled claims. We formulate individual claims reserving as a claim-level Markov decision process in which an agent sequentially u

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Tab-TRM: Tiny Recursive Model for Insurance Pricing on Tabular Data

We introduce Tab-TRM (Tabular-Tiny Recursive Model), a network architecture that adapts the recursive latent reasoning paradigm of Tiny Recursive Models (TRMs) to insurance modeling. Drawing inspiration from both the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) and its simplified successor TRM, the Tab-TRM mo

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Temporal-Aligned Meta-Learning for Risk Management: A Stacking Approach for Multi-Source Credit Scoring

This paper presents a meta-learning framework for credit risk assessment of Italian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that explicitly addresses the temporal misalignment of credit scoring models. The approach aligns financial statement reference dates with evaluation dates, mitigating bias arising

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Limits of Complexity: Why Feature Engineering Beats Deep Learning in Investor Flow Prediction

The application of machine learning to financial prediction has accelerated dramatically, yet the conditions under which complex models outperform simple alternatives remain poorly understood. This paper investigates whether advanced signal processing and deep learning techniques can extract predict

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Universal basic income in a financial equilibrium

Universal basic income (UBI) is a tax scheme that uniformly redistributes aggregate income amongst the entire population of an economy. We prove the existence of an equilibrium in a model that implements universal basic income. The economic agents choose the proportion of their time to work and earn

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

An Explainable Market Integrity Monitoring System with Multi-Source Attention Signals and Transparent Scoring

Market integrity monitoring is difficult because suspicious price/volume behavior can arise from many benign mechanisms, while modern detection systems often rely on opaque models that are hard to audit and communicate. We present AIMM-X, an explainable monitoring pipeline that combines market micro

January 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Cross-Market Alpha: Testing Short-Term Trading Factors in the U.S. Market via Double-Selection LASSO

Current asset pricing research exhibits a significant gap: a lack of sufficient cross-market validation regarding short-term trading-based factors. Against this backdrop, the development of the Chinese A-share market which is characterized by its retail-investor dominance, policy sensitivity, and hi

January 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Emissions-Robust Portfolios

We study portfolio choice when firm-level emissions intensities are measured with error. We introduce a scope-specific penalty operator that rescales asset payoffs as a smooth function of revenue-normalized emissions intensity. Under payoff homogeneity, unit-scale invariance, mixture linearity, and

January 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Three--Dimensional Efficient Surface for Portfolio Optimization

The classical mean-variance framework characterizes portfolio risk solely through return variance and the covariance matrix, implicitly assuming that all relevant sources of risk are captured by second moments. In modern financial markets, however, shocks often propagate through complex networks of

January 9, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

DeePM: Regime-Robust Deep Learning for Systematic Macro Portfolio Management

We propose DeePM (Deep Portfolio Manager), a structured deep-learning macro portfolio manager trained end-to-end to maximize a robust, risk-adjusted utility. DeePM addresses three fundamental challenges in financial learning: (1) it resolves the asynchronous “ragged filtration” problem via a Directe

January 9, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Geopolitical and Institutional Constraints on Adaptive Market Efficiency -- A Feasibility Diagnostic for Robust Portfolio Construction

This paper develops a structural framework for characterizing the informational feasibility of financial markets under heterogeneous institutional and geopolitical conditions. Departing from the assumption of uniform and time-invariant market efficiency, adaptive efficiency is conceptualized as a lo

January 9, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space