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Quant LetterNo. 30

December 2023, Week 3

204 items across 7 sections, as sent to readers on 20 December 2023. Paper titles open their ML-Quant page; ↗ goes to the source.

arXiv

Quantitative-finance and ML-for-finance preprints from arXiv.

42 items

Finance24

04

Residual U-net for Multi-Agent Trade Execution

The paper discusses the application of a deep residual U-net with self-attention to solve the continuous time-consistent mean variance optimal trade execution problem for multiple agents and assets, surpassing the constraints of finite difference methods.

4 sharesSource ↗

12

Residual U-net for Multi-Agent Trade Execution

The paper discusses the application of a deep residual U-net with self-attention to solve the continuous time-consistent mean variance optimal trade execution problem for multiple agents and assets, surpassing the constraints of finite difference methods.

4 sharesSource ↗

20

Residual U-net for Multi-Agent Trade Execution

The paper discusses the application of a deep residual U-net with self-attention to solve the continuous time-consistent mean variance optimal trade execution problem for multiple agents and assets, surpassing the constraints of finite difference methods.

4 sharesSource ↗

Crypto & Blockchain6

01

Implications of Artificial Latency in PBS

The study examines the effects of artificial latency in the Ethereum network's Proposer-Builder Separation framework, highlighting increased profits for node operators but also potential network inefficiencies and centralization risks.

6 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

02

Blockchain Risk Parity: Efficient Investing

Efficient Investing: Blockchain technology is being utilized to create risk-managed portfolios with three different funds, each inversely related to the asset's risk, giving investors the ability to choose their preferred risk or return level.

3 sharesSource ↗

03

Implications of Artificial Latency in PBS

The study examines the effects of artificial latency in the Ethereum network's Proposer-Builder Separation framework, highlighting increased profits for node operators but also potential network inefficiencies and centralization risks.

6 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

04

Blockchain Risk Parity: Efficient Investing

Efficient Investing: Blockchain technology is being utilized to create risk-managed portfolios with three different funds, each inversely related to the asset's risk, giving investors the ability to choose their preferred risk or return level.

3 sharesSource ↗

05

Implications of Artificial Latency in PBS

The study examines the effects of artificial latency in the Ethereum network's Proposer-Builder Separation framework, highlighting increased profits for node operators but also potential network inefficiencies and centralization risks.

6 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

06

Blockchain Risk Parity: Efficient Investing

Efficient Investing: Blockchain technology is being utilized to create risk-managed portfolios with three different funds, each inversely related to the asset's risk, giving investors the ability to choose their preferred risk or return level.

3 sharesSource ↗

Historical Trending12

03

Portfolio Evaluation with Rewards

The study examines how periodic reward structures affect long-term portfolio strategies, especially when short-selling is not allowed, by transforming the issue into a single-period optimization problem.

13 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

04

Agent-Based Modeling with Language Models

The research introduces Smart Agent-Based Modeling (SABM), a new framework that combines Large Language Models with Agent-Based Modeling to simulate real-world situations more accurately, as demonstrated in three case studies.

13 shares22 citations todaySource ↗

07

Portfolio Evaluation with Rewards

The study examines how periodic reward structures affect long-term portfolio strategies, especially when short-selling is not allowed, by transforming the issue into a single-period optimization problem.

13 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

08

Agent-Based Modeling with Language Models

The research introduces Smart Agent-Based Modeling (SABM), a new framework that combines Large Language Models with Agent-Based Modeling to simulate real-world situations more accurately, as demonstrated in three case studies.

13 shares22 citations todaySource ↗

11

Portfolio Evaluation with Rewards

The study examines how periodic reward structures affect long-term portfolio strategies, especially when short-selling is not allowed, by transforming the issue into a single-period optimization problem.

13 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

12

Agent-Based Modeling with Language Models

The research introduces Smart Agent-Based Modeling (SABM), a new framework that combines Large Language Models with Agent-Based Modeling to simulate real-world situations more accurately, as demonstrated in three case studies.

13 shares22 citations todaySource ↗

SSRN

Working papers in finance and economics from SSRN.

54 items

Quantitative19

05

Volatility Modeling in Asset Markets

The paper investigates the volatilities of nine asset markets from 2013 to 2021, identifying three factors affecting volatility and a strong correlation in the volatility of Iranian stock returns.

3 sharesSource ↗

06

DEX Arbitrage with Deep Reinforcement Learning

The study explores trading performances under arbitrage conditions in decentralized exchanges, using a simulation model and deep reinforcement learning to determine optimal arbitrage strategies for eight cryptocurrency pairs.

3 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

11

Volatility Modeling in Asset Markets

The paper investigates the volatilities of nine asset markets from 2013 to 2021, identifying three factors affecting volatility and a strong correlation in the volatility of Iranian stock returns.

3 sharesSource ↗

12

DEX Arbitrage with Deep Reinforcement Learning

The study explores trading performances under arbitrage conditions in decentralized exchanges, using a simulation model and deep reinforcement learning to determine optimal arbitrage strategies for eight cryptocurrency pairs.

3 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

18

Volatility Modeling in Asset Markets

The paper investigates the volatilities of nine asset markets from 2013 to 2021, identifying three factors affecting volatility and a strong correlation in the volatility of Iranian stock returns.

3 sharesSource ↗

19

DEX Arbitrage with Deep Reinforcement Learning

The study explores trading performances under arbitrage conditions in decentralized exchanges, using a simulation model and deep reinforcement learning to determine optimal arbitrage strategies for eight cryptocurrency pairs.

3 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

Financial35

01

ETF Cross-Arbitrage

Due to the unique characteristics of the ETF lending market, ETFs are costlier to borrow than stocks, creating profitable opportunities for cross-ETF arbitrage.

2 sharesSource ↗

02

Cryptocurrency Carry Trade: Risk and Return

Risk and Return: Cryptocurrency carry trade provides high returns that are not solely explained by cryptocurrency factors or geopolitical risks, indicating a significant part of returns is a premium for equity market volatility risk.

6 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

03

Resilience for Stronger Investment Portfolios

The article promotes an adaptive investment strategy that focuses on resilience thinking, active ownership, and moving away from narrow financial models due to fast-paced technological, geopolitical, and environmental changes.

2 sharesSource ↗

04

Outperforming Equal Weighting

The article suggests that an equally-weighted stock portfolio can be improved by avoiding negative exposure to certain factor anomalies, while keeping the portfolio construction process simple.

6 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

06

Machine Learning for Portfolio Selection

A new performance ratio is created to address the limitations of the Sharpe ratio under non-Gaussian returns and systemic risk, showing improved portfolio selection performance in terms of profitability and risk reduction.

2 sharesSource ↗

07

Investors' Risk and Return Expectations

The study analyzes risk and return expectations on 19 asset classes from 1987 to 2022, highlighting a strong risk-return tradeoff and the predictive power of expected returns.

609 sharesSource ↗

08

Market Ambiguity and Risk-Return Tradeoff

The risk-return balance in the stock market is affected by the investor's attitude towards ambiguity, with increased market volatility causing a decrease in the equity premium's slope when market optimism is high.

2 sharesSource ↗

09

Automated Market Makers: Revolutionizing Finance

Revolutionizing Finance: Automated Market Makers (AMMs) can make liquidity provision more accessible and potentially create deeper markets for high-volume, low-volatility assets, resulting in lower trading costs than traditional markets.

2 sharesSource ↗

10

Short-Term Signals: Unlocking Alpha

Unlocking Alpha: Investors can achieve substantial net alpha by combining short-term signals with advanced trading rules in a liquid global universe, which helps to reduce transaction costs.

3 sharesSource ↗

12

ETF Cross-Arbitrage

Due to the unique characteristics of the ETF lending market, ETFs are costlier to borrow than stocks, creating profitable opportunities for cross-ETF arbitrage.

2 sharesSource ↗

13

Cryptocurrency Carry Trade: Risk and Return

Risk and Return: Cryptocurrency carry trade provides high returns that are not solely explained by cryptocurrency factors or geopolitical risks, indicating a significant part of returns is a premium for equity market volatility risk.

6 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

14

Resilience for Stronger Investment Portfolios

The article promotes an adaptive investment strategy that focuses on resilience thinking, active ownership, and moving away from narrow financial models due to fast-paced technological, geopolitical, and environmental changes.

2 sharesSource ↗

15

Outperforming Equal Weighting

The article suggests that an equally-weighted stock portfolio can be improved by avoiding negative exposure to certain factor anomalies, while keeping the portfolio construction process simple.

6 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

17

Machine Learning for Portfolio Selection

A new performance ratio is created to address the limitations of the Sharpe ratio under non-Gaussian returns and systemic risk, showing improved portfolio selection performance in terms of profitability and risk reduction.

2 sharesSource ↗

18

Investors' Risk and Return Expectations

The study analyzes risk and return expectations on 19 asset classes from 1987 to 2022, highlighting a strong risk-return tradeoff and the predictive power of expected returns.

609 sharesSource ↗

19

Market Ambiguity and Risk-Return Tradeoff

The risk-return balance in the stock market is affected by the investor's attitude towards ambiguity, with increased market volatility causing a decrease in the equity premium's slope when market optimism is high.

2 sharesSource ↗

20

Automated Market Makers: Revolutionizing Finance

Revolutionizing Finance: Automated Market Makers (AMMs) can make liquidity provision more accessible and potentially create deeper markets for high-volume, low-volatility assets, resulting in lower trading costs than traditional markets.

2 sharesSource ↗

21

Short-Term Signals: Unlocking Alpha

Unlocking Alpha: Investors can achieve substantial net alpha by combining short-term signals with advanced trading rules in a liquid global universe, which helps to reduce transaction costs.

3 sharesSource ↗

25

ETF Cross-Arbitrage

Due to the unique characteristics of the ETF lending market, ETFs are costlier to borrow than stocks, creating profitable opportunities for cross-ETF arbitrage.

2 sharesSource ↗

26

Cryptocurrency Carry Trade: Risk and Return

Risk and Return: Cryptocurrency carry trade provides high returns that are not solely explained by cryptocurrency factors or geopolitical risks, indicating a significant part of returns is a premium for equity market volatility risk.

6 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

27

Outperforming Equal Weighting

The article suggests that an equally-weighted stock portfolio can be improved by avoiding negative exposure to certain factor anomalies, while keeping the portfolio construction process simple.

6 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

28

Resilience for Stronger Investment Portfolios

The article promotes an adaptive investment strategy that focuses on resilience thinking, active ownership, and moving away from narrow financial models due to fast-paced technological, geopolitical, and environmental changes.

2 sharesSource ↗

30

Machine Learning for Portfolio Selection

A new performance ratio is created to address the limitations of the Sharpe ratio under non-Gaussian returns and systemic risk, showing improved portfolio selection performance in terms of profitability and risk reduction.

2 sharesSource ↗

31

Investors' Risk and Return Expectations

The study analyzes risk and return expectations on 19 asset classes from 1987 to 2022, highlighting a strong risk-return tradeoff and the predictive power of expected returns.

609 sharesSource ↗

32

Market Ambiguity and Risk-Return Tradeoff

The risk-return balance in the stock market is affected by the investor's attitude towards ambiguity, with increased market volatility causing a decrease in the equity premium's slope when market optimism is high.

2 sharesSource ↗

33

Automated Market Makers: Revolutionizing Finance

Revolutionizing Finance: Automated Market Makers (AMMs) can make liquidity provision more accessible and potentially create deeper markets for high-volume, low-volatility assets, resulting in lower trading costs than traditional markets.

2 sharesSource ↗

34

Short-Term Signals: Unlocking Alpha

Unlocking Alpha: Investors can achieve substantial net alpha by combining short-term signals with advanced trading rules in a liquid global universe, which helps to reduce transaction costs.

3 sharesSource ↗

RePEc

Economics working papers from RePEc's NEP field reports.

51 items

Machine Learning9

Finance42

01

Asset Bubbles and Trading Strategies

The chapter discusses trading strategies in a single risky asset market with a price bubble, showing that wealth preserving strategies can outperform simply holding the asset.

37 sharesSource ↗

02

Short Selling and Arbitrage

The study reveals that arbitrage opportunities in financial markets can only be exploited through short selling, emphasizing the bankruptcy risk involved.

29 sharesSource ↗

05

EMA Trading Strategies with Partial Information

The study investigates optimal trading strategies for a partially informed trader under Gaussian price dynamics, proving that optimal strategies depend on current price and an exponentially weighted moving average price.

24 sharesSource ↗

06

Total Positivity and Convexity in Options

The chapter explores total positivity and relative convexity properties in option pricing models, demonstrating that these properties generally hold in time-homogeneous local volatility models.

23 sharesSource ↗

07

Derivatives' Risks in a Network Model

The paper introduces a one-period XVA model for bilateral and centrally cleared trading, illustrating its potential for stress testing a financial network or optimizing a defaulted clearing member's portfolio.

23 sharesSource ↗

10

Backtestability and the Ridge Backtest

The article proposes a formal definition of backtestability for a statistical functional of a distribution and explores its connection with elicitability and identifiability.

19 sharesSource ↗

14

ChatGPT as a Quant Asset Manager

The research suggests a quantitative investment approach that includes recommendations from ChatGPT, demonstrating its potential to enhance portfolio efficiency.

16 sharesSource ↗

15

Asset Bubbles and Trading Strategies

The chapter discusses trading strategies in a single risky asset market with a price bubble, showing that wealth preserving strategies can outperform simply holding the asset.

37 sharesSource ↗

16

Short Selling and Arbitrage

The study reveals that arbitrage opportunities in financial markets can only be exploited through short selling, emphasizing the bankruptcy risk involved.

29 sharesSource ↗

19

EMA Trading Strategies with Partial Information

The study investigates optimal trading strategies for a partially informed trader under Gaussian price dynamics, proving that optimal strategies depend on current price and an exponentially weighted moving average price.

24 sharesSource ↗

20

Total Positivity and Convexity in Options

The chapter explores total positivity and relative convexity properties in option pricing models, demonstrating that these properties generally hold in time-homogeneous local volatility models.

23 sharesSource ↗

21

Derivatives' Risks in a Network Model

The paper introduces a one-period XVA model for bilateral and centrally cleared trading, illustrating its potential for stress testing a financial network or optimizing a defaulted clearing member's portfolio.

23 sharesSource ↗

24

Backtestability and the Ridge Backtest

The article proposes a formal definition of backtestability for a statistical functional of a distribution and explores its connection with elicitability and identifiability.

19 sharesSource ↗

28

ChatGPT as a Quant Asset Manager

The research suggests a quantitative investment approach that includes recommendations from ChatGPT, demonstrating its potential to enhance portfolio efficiency.

16 sharesSource ↗

29

Asset Bubbles and Trading Strategies

The chapter discusses trading strategies in a single risky asset market with a price bubble, showing that wealth preserving strategies can outperform simply holding the asset.

37 sharesSource ↗

30

Short Selling and Arbitrage

The study reveals that arbitrage opportunities in financial markets can only be exploited through short selling, emphasizing the bankruptcy risk involved.

29 sharesSource ↗

33

EMA Trading Strategies with Partial Information

The study investigates optimal trading strategies for a partially informed trader under Gaussian price dynamics, proving that optimal strategies depend on current price and an exponentially weighted moving average price.

24 sharesSource ↗

34

Total Positivity and Convexity in Options

The chapter explores total positivity and relative convexity properties in option pricing models, demonstrating that these properties generally hold in time-homogeneous local volatility models.

23 sharesSource ↗

35

Derivatives' Risks in a Network Model

The paper introduces a one-period XVA model for bilateral and centrally cleared trading, illustrating its potential for stress testing a financial network or optimizing a defaulted clearing member's portfolio.

23 sharesSource ↗

38

Backtestability and the Ridge Backtest

The article proposes a formal definition of backtestability for a statistical functional of a distribution and explores its connection with elicitability and identifiability.

19 sharesSource ↗

42

ChatGPT as a Quant Asset Manager

The research suggests a quantitative investment approach that includes recommendations from ChatGPT, demonstrating its potential to enhance portfolio efficiency.

16 sharesSource ↗

Machine learning

The general machine-learning papers the letter carried in 2023-25.

6 items

Recently Published6

02

Maximizing Non-differentiable Objectives

The guide introduces reinforcement learning as an extension of supervised learning, offering an easy-to-understand method for learning advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms such as proximal policy optimization.

29 shares13 citations todaySource ↗

04

Maximizing Non-differentiable Objectives

The guide introduces reinforcement learning as an extension of supervised learning, offering an easy-to-understand method for learning advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms such as proximal policy optimization.

29 shares13 citations todaySource ↗

06

Maximizing Non-differentiable Objectives

The guide introduces reinforcement learning as an extension of supervised learning, offering an easy-to-understand method for learning advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms such as proximal policy optimization.

29 shares13 citations todaySource ↗

Papers with code

Papers that shipped their code, from the Papers with Code feed (2023-25).

9 items

01

Rethinking UNet Encoder in Diffusion Models

A novel technique has been found that skips the encoder at certain adjacent timesteps and cyclically reuses the encoder features from previous timesteps for the decoder.

140 shares

04

Rethinking UNet Encoder in Diffusion Models

A novel technique has been found that skips the encoder at certain adjacent timesteps and cyclically reuses the encoder features from previous timesteps for the decoder.

140 shares

07

Rethinking UNet Encoder in Diffusion Models

A novel technique has been found that skips the encoder at certain adjacent timesteps and cyclically reuses the encoder features from previous timesteps for the decoder.

140 shares

GitHub

Repositories the letter featured.

27 items

Finance15

01

Scalable Timeseries ML with Polars

The article explores the application of Polars in large-scale timeseries machine learning, particularly in parallel feature extraction and panel data forecasts.

677 shares

06

Scalable Timeseries ML with Polars

The article explores the application of Polars in large-scale timeseries machine learning, particularly in parallel feature extraction and panel data forecasts.

677 shares

11

Scalable Timeseries ML with Polars

The article explores the application of Polars in large-scale timeseries machine learning, particularly in parallel feature extraction and panel data forecasts.

677 shares

Trending12

02

AI Custom Builds

The repo discusses the need for precise instructions for AI systems to produce accurate results.

46,808 shares

03

Opensource Language Model: KnowLM

KnowLM: A new open-source framework has been created for handling large language models with extensive knowledge.

821 shares

06

AI Custom Builds

The repo discusses the need for precise instructions for AI systems to produce accurate results.

46,808 shares

07

Opensource Language Model: KnowLM

KnowLM: A new open-source framework has been created for handling large language models with extensive knowledge.

821 shares

10

AI Custom Builds

The repo discusses the need for precise instructions for AI systems to produce accurate results.

46,808 shares

11

Opensource Language Model: KnowLM

KnowLM: A new open-source framework has been created for handling large language models with extensive knowledge.

821 shares

News

Industry news: funds, hiring, markets and regulation.

15 items

02

Market Making Model Analysis in HFT

A paper presents a straightforward market making model for high frequency trading in the North American stock market, without including performance analysis.

1 shares

03

Quant Investing with AQR

An article delves into quantitative investing and AQR, offering valuable insights into the sector.

1 shares

04

Christmas Quant Gift Ideas

The article suggests Christmas gift ideas related to quantitative analysis, including books on various financial and mathematical topics and mechanical pencils.

17 shares

07

Market Making Model Analysis in HFT

A paper presents a straightforward market making model for high frequency trading in the North American stock market, without including performance analysis.

1 shares

08

Quant Investing with AQR

An article delves into quantitative investing and AQR, offering valuable insights into the sector.

1 shares

09

Christmas Quant Gift Ideas

The article suggests Christmas gift ideas related to quantitative analysis, including books on various financial and mathematical topics and mechanical pencils.

17 shares

12

Market Making Model Analysis in HFT

A paper presents a straightforward market making model for high frequency trading in the North American stock market, without including performance analysis.

1 shares

13

Quant Investing with AQR

An article delves into quantitative investing and AQR, offering valuable insights into the sector.

1 shares

14

Christmas Quant Gift Ideas

The article suggests Christmas gift ideas related to quantitative analysis, including books on various financial and mathematical topics and mechanical pencils.

17 shares

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