Study shows survivorship bias inflates returns in India's small-cap index.
problem Survivorship bias in emerging market small-cap indices.
method Reconstructing historical index composition through market capitalization ranking and comparing equal-weight portfolios of current constituents versus all historical members.
result Survivor-only backtesting overstates returns by 4.94 percentage points and Sharpe ratios by 0.097.
NIFTy.re accelerates imaging models and expands Gaussian processes and variational inference.
problem Slow performance and limited inference strategies in NIFTy.
method Rewritten NIFTy with new modeling principles, inference strategies, and JAX integration.
result Dramatic acceleration of models and new inference capabilities.
NIFTY dataset for financial forecasting models.
problem Improving financial market forecasting with LLMs.
method Two datasets for supervised and reinforcement learning.
result Demonstrates applications in stock price prediction.
Prediction of future movement of stock prices has been a subject matter of many research work. In this work, we propose a hybrid approach for stock price prediction using machine learning and deep learning-based methods. We select the NIFTY 50 index values of the National Stock Exchange of India, over a period of four …
Study finds monthly SIPs outperform first-day SIPs in Nifty 50 by 0.5-2.5% annually.
problem Underexplored impact of SIP timing in India's equity market.
method 22-year analysis using multi-layered statistical framework (non-parametric tests, effect size metrics, SSD).
result Monthly SIPs (EXP-SIP) outperform first-day SIPs (FTD-SIP) by 0.5-2.5% annually over short-to-medium-term horizons.
This study predicts stock prices using hybrid machine learning and LSTM models.
problem Accurately predicting stock prices despite the efficient market hypothesis.
method Hybrid modeling combining machine learning and deep learning (LSTM) for NIFTY 50 index prediction.
result LSTM-based univariate model with one-week prior data is most accurate.
Study shows news from various topics impacts Nifty 50 index.
problem Lack of analysis on news impact on Nifty 50 index.
method Analyzed Nifty 50 index movement with sentiments from diverse news topics.
result Sentiment scores from different topics significantly impact Nifty 50 index.
This paper presents deep learning models for NIFTY 50 stock price prediction.
problem Accurately predicting stock prices using historical data.
method Used CNN and LSTM-based deep learning models on NIFTY 50 historical data.
result Univariate encoder-decoder convolutional LSTM model is the most accurate.
This paper analyses how Time Series Analysis techniques can be applied to capture movement of an exchange traded index in a stock market. Specifically, Seasonal Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) class of models is applied to capture the movement of Nifty 50 index which is one of the most actively excha…
SNNs optimize cross-market portfolios with neuromorphic computing, reducing computational overhead and improving returns.
problem Complex cross-market portfolio optimization with high-frequency, multi-dimensional datasets.
method Leaky Integrate-and-Fire neuron dynamics, adaptive thresholding, spike-timing-dependent plasticity, lateral inhibition, hierarchical clustering, population-based spike encoding, multiple decoding strategies.
result SNNs deliver superior risk-adjusted returns and reduced volatility compared to ANN benchmarks, with improved computational efficiency.
Study shows demonetization strengthened Indian currency and stock market.
problem Impact of demonetization on Indian stock market and foreign exchange rate.
method Daily rate of return analysis of foreign exchange rate and Nifty 50 index, use of dummy variable for demonetization period.
result Demonetization led to an upward trend in Indian stock market and strengthened the Indian currency (decreased foreign exchange rate).
This paper optimizes portfolios using HRP and CLA algorithms on NIFTY 50 stocks.
problem Designing an optimal stock portfolio with accurate forecasting of future returns and risks.
method Uses hierarchical risk parity and critical line algorithms on NIFTY 50 stocks.
result Hierarchical risk parity algorithm outperformed the critical line algorithm on test data.
The paper examines Indian market bubbles using financial ratios.
problem Detecting bubbles in emerging markets like India is challenging.
method Utilizes financial ratios and the Philips et al 2015 right-tailed unit test.
result Identifies various bubble episodes in the Indian market.
Study analyzes Nifty 50 returns over 34 years, showing P/E ratio predicts long-term gains.
problem Understanding equity return dynamics in the Indian market over various horizons.
method Unified, distribution-aware, complexity-informed framework using 34 years of Nifty 50 data.
result P/E ratio probabilistically maps return distributions across different investment horizons.
A new model explains U- and Swoosh-shaped stock price recovery during the COVID-19.
problem Modeling stock price recovery during the COVID-19 with V- and L-shaped recovery.
method Introducing a sentiment variable θ to quantify investor sentiment and simulate U- and Swoosh-shaped recovery. result The model explains U- and Swoosh-shaped recovery of sectoral indices with positive sentiment.
The list of knots with up to 10 crossings is commonly referred to as the Rolfsen Table. This paper presents a way to generate the Rolfsen table in a simple, clear, and reproducible manner. The methods we use are similar to those used by J. Hoste, M. Thistlethwaite, and J. Weeks in [1]. The difference between our method…
This non-linear relationship in the joint time-frequency domain has been studied for the Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE) with the international Gold price and WTI Crude Price being converted from Dollar to Indian National Rupee based on that week's closing exchange rate. Though a good correlation was obtained duri…
Minimal grid diagrams found for 13-crossing prime knots with 13 arc index.
problem Finding minimal grid diagrams for prime knots with specific crossing and arc indices.
method Used Knotscape to generate spanning trees and obtain minimal arc presentations in grid diagrams.
result 9,988 prime knots with 13 crossings and 13 arc index were identified.
Bayesian GPR model predicts extreme stock market losses.
problem Forecasting rare but impactful extreme negative returns in equity markets.
method Developed a Bayesian Generalised Pareto Regression model linking scale parameter to market volatility.
result The Cauchy prior provides the best balance between predictive accuracy and model simplicity.
The study evaluates various ML models for stock market prediction.
problem Predicting the Nifty 50 Index using machine learning models.
method 8 supervised machine learning models (AdaBoost, kNN, LR, ANN, RF, SGD, SVM, DT) applied to historical Nifty 50 Index data.
result Support Vector Machine performed best, but Stochastic Gradient Descent improved performance with larger datasets.
This paper optimizes portfolios of thematic sector stocks using LSTM models.
problem Designing an optimized portfolio of stocks to maximize return and minimize risk.
method Extracted stock prices from Jan 2016 to Dec 2020, used LSTM model for prediction, designed portfolios based on critical stocks.
result LSTM model accurately predicted future stock returns, indicating high accuracy.
This study compares two portfolio optimization methods on Indian stocks.
problem Designing an optimal portfolio considering stock returns and risks.
method Hierarchical Risk Parity and Eigen Portfolio approaches on NIFTY 50 sectors.
result Hierarchical Risk Parity portfolio outperforms Eigen portfolio in most sectors tested.
This study proposes an equal-weight portfolio strategy to reduce risk compared to traditional ETFs.
problem Risk of passive ETFs not matching optimal portfolio weights.
method Introduced an equal-weight portfolio strategy to reduce idiosyncratic risk.
result Equal-weight portfolio has lower risk than traditional ETFs, especially during idiosyncratic events.
The inference of correlated signal fields with unknown correlation structures is of high scientific and technological relevance, but poses significant conceptual and numerical challenges. To address these, we develop the correlated signal inference (CSI) algorithm within information field theory (IFT) and discuss its n…
Novel method prices call options using Pearson diffusion processes.
problem Pricing European call options with skewness and kurtosis.
method Modeling asset returns with Pearson diffusion processes.
result Proposed method outperforms Black-Scholes and Heston models.
The fact that every human has a distinctive walking style has prompted a proposal to use gait recognition as an identification criterion. Using end-to-end learning, I investigated whether the center-of-pressure trajectory is sufficiently unique to identify a person with a high certainty. Thirty-six adults walked on a t…
Time series analysis and forecasting of stock market prices has been a very active area of research over the last two decades. Availability of extremely fast and parallel architecture of computing and sophisticated algorithms has made it possible to extract, store, process and analyze high volume stock market time seri…
Spectral denoising recovers meaningful network structure from noisy financial correlations.
problem Noise in empirical correlation matrices from financial returns obscures genuine interactions.
method Spectral decomposition to separate structured and random components.
result Structured networks derived from 10-16 eigenmodes exhibit stronger core-periphery organization and scale-free degree distributions.
Realization of uncertainty of prices is captured by volatility, that is the tendency of prices to vary along a period of time. This is generally measured as standard deviation of daily returns. In this paper we propose and investigate the application of fuzzy transform and its inverse as an alternative measure of volat…
Historical daily data for eleven years of the fifty constituent stocks of the NIFTY index traded on the National Stock Exchange have been analyzed to check for the stylized facts in the Indian market. It is observed that while some stylized facts of other markets are also observed in Indian market, there are significan…
Prediction of future movement of stock prices has been a subject matter of many research work. There is a gamut of literature of technical analysis of stock prices where the objective is to identify patterns in stock price movements and derive profit from it. Improving the prediction accuracy remains the single most ch…
From the stock markets of six countries with high GDP, we study the stock indices, S&P 500 (NYSE, USA), SSE Composite (SSE, China), Nikkei (TSE, Japan), DAX (FSE, Germany), FTSE 100 (LSE, Britain) and NIFTY (NSE, India). The daily mean growth of the stock values is exponential. The daily price fluctuations about the me…
Study improves stock index prediction accuracy using TPE-GRNN models.
problem Enhancing prediction of stock index prices in volatile markets.
method Gated recurrent neural networks (LSTM, GRU) combined with TPE Bayesian optimization.
result TPE-LSTM method shows lowest MAPE (best accuracy) for NIFTY 50 index prediction.
Study finds dividend policy has no significant effect on IPO stock prices.
problem Impact of dividend policy on IPO price performance.
method Long-run performance statistics and GARCH model, dummy variable used.
result Dividend policy has no significant effect on IPO stock prices.
This project explores several Machine Learning methods to predict movie genres based on plot summaries. Naive Bayes, Word2Vec+XGBoost and Recurrent Neural Networks are used for text classification, while K-binary transformation, rank method and probabilistic classification with learned probability threshold are employe…
Study confirms Indian stock market is weak form inefficient.
problem Impact of stock market efficiency on investment returns.
method Runs test, Autocorrelation test, Autoregression test on daily stock indices.
result Indian stock market is weak form inefficient and can be outperformed.
A method based on wavelet transform and genetic programming is proposed for characterizing and modeling variations at multiple scales in non-stationary time series. The cyclic variations, extracted by wavelets and smoothened by cubic splines, are well captured by genetic programming in the form of dynamical equations. …
Minimal surfaces are among the most natural objects in Differential Geometry, and have been studied for the past 250 years ever since the pioneering work of Lagrange. The subject is characterized by a profound beauty, but perhaps even more remarkably, minimal surfaces (or minimal submanifolds) have encountered striking…
Due to escalating healthcare costs, accurately predicting which patients will incur high costs is an important task for payers and providers of healthcare. High-cost claimants (HiCCs) are patients who have annual costs above $\$250,000$ and who represent just 0.16% of the insured population but currently account for 9%…
Deep learning network matches radiologists in breast cancer segmentation.
problem Automating radiologist-level cancer segmentation from breast MRI.
method 3D U-Net architecture trained on 382,290 breast scans, compared to 255,500 benign cases.
result Network performance matched radiologists' on 2D segmentation of breast cancers.
The methodology presented provides a quantitative way to characterize investor behavior and price dynamics within a particular asset class and time period. The methodology is applied to a data set consisting of over 250,000 data points of the S&P 100 stocks during 2004-2018. Using a two-way fixed-effects model, we unco…
Study finds physical momentum portfolios in Indian stock market yield higher returns than benchmarks.
problem Determining abnormal returns for physical momentum portfolios in the Indian stock market.
method Constructed physical momentum portfolios for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly timescales, evaluated historical returns and risk profiles.
result Daily time scale physical momentum portfolios showed the strongest reversal with a 16-fold profit.
We study the Heston model, where the stock price dynamics is governed by a geometrical (multiplicative) Brownian motion with stochastic variance. We solve the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation exactly and, after integrating out the variance, find an analytic formula for the time-dependent probability distribution of…
Let M be an n-dimensional closed hypersurface with constant mean curvature and constant scalar curvature in an unit sphere. Denote by H and S the mean curvature and the squared length of the second fundamental form respectively. We prove that if S>α(n,H), where n≥4 and H=0, then $S > α(n, H) + …
Todays interactive devices such as smart-phone assistants and smart speakers often deal with short-duration speech segments. As a result, speaker recognition systems integrated into such devices will be much better suited with models capable of performing the recognition task with short-duration utterances. In this pap…
Quantile regression is an increasingly important empirical tool in economics and other sciences for analyzing the impact of a set of regressors on the conditional distribution of an outcome. Extremal quantile regression, or quantile regression applied to the tails, is of interest in many economic and financial applicat…
Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) algorithms have shown great potential in training regimes when access to labeled data is scarce but access to unlabeled data is plentiful. However, our experiments illustrate several shortcomings that prior SSL algorithms suffer from. In particular, poor performance when unlabeled and lab…
New analysis identifies key factors in wildfire-generated thunderstorms.
problem Understanding the causes of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) storms.
method Invariant Causal Prediction, conditional independence test, greedy-ICP search algorithm.
result Identified seven causal predictors for pyroCb formation.