A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
No-arbitrage constraints on implied variance slope are weak, leading to almost guaranteed arbitrage in many cases.
The BBF, SABR, and rough SABR formulas provide nearly arbitrage-free implied vol approximations.
Framework predicts implied volatility surface without arbitrage.
Monotonicity of normalized implied-volatility coordinates under no-arbitrage
Generative diffusion models forecast implied vol surfaces without arbitrage issues.
This paper provides a neural approach to represent option implied information.
We present an Hilbert space formulation for a set of implied volatility models introduced in \cite{BraceGoldys01} in which the authors studied conditions for a family of European call options, varying the maturing time and the strike price an , to be arbitrage free. The arbitrage free conditions give a system of…
We consider the classical problem of building an arbitrage-free implied volatility surface from bid-ask quotes. We design a fast numerical procedure, for which we prove the convergence, based on the Sinkhorn algorithm that has been recently used to solve efficiently (martingale) optimal transport problems.
Characterizes no Butterfly arbitrage in SVI model parameters.
The paper analyzes LETF option markets using moneyness scaling to find statistical arbitrage opportunities.
In this article we propose a generalisation of the recent work of Gatheral and Jacquier on explicit arbitrage-free parameterisations of implied volatility surfaces. We also discuss extensively the notion of arbitrage freeness and Roger Lee's moment formula using the recent analysis by Roper. We further exhibit an arbit…
Long-term relative arbitrage exists in markets where the excess growth rate of the market portfolio is bounded away from zero. Here it is shown that under a time-homogeneity hypothesis this condition will also imply the existence of relative arbitrage over arbitrarily short intervals.
Generates consistent IV surfaces using VAEs and SDE models.
Method interpolates option prices and volatilities without arbitrage.
We propose a new static parameterization of the implied volatility surface which is constructed by using polynomials of sigmoid functions combined with some other terms. This parameterization is flexible enough to fit market implied volatilities which demonstrate smile or skew. An arbitrage-free calibration algorithm i…
We develop a dynamic version of the SSVI parameterisation for the total implied variance, ensuring that European vanilla option prices are martingales, hence preventing the occurrence of arbitrage, both static and dynamic. Insisting on the constraint that the total implied variance needs to be null at the maturity of t…
Perpetual futures offer leverage without maturity, with prices influenced by funding rates.
Proposes a method to construct risk-neutral marginals from arbitrage-free option prices.
We have embedded the classical theory of stochastic finance into a differential geometric framework called Geometric Arbitrage Theory and show that it is possible to: --Write arbitrage as curvature of a principal fibre bundle. --Parameterize arbitrage strategies by its holonomy. --Give the Fundamental Theorem of Asset …
Modeling implied volatility surface dynamics with Hawkes kernels.
In this article, we show how to calibrate the widely-used SVI parameterization of the implied volatility surface in such a way as to guarantee the absence of static arbitrage. In particular, we exhibit a large class of arbitrage-free SVI volatility surfaces with a simple closed-form representation. We demonstrate the h…
DCNN improves volatility smile and skewness calibration without arbitrage constraints.
Market impact is the link between the volume of a (large) order and the price move during and after the execution of this order. We show that under no-arbitrage assumption, the market impact function can only be of power-law type. Furthermore, we prove that this implies that the macroscopic price is diffusive with roug…
Deep learning models reconstruct volatility surfaces from noisy data under no-arbitrage constraints.
Generative adversarial networks enforce no-arbitrage in volatility surface computation.
This paper examines Bachelier implied volatility at extreme strikes.
We investigate triangular arbitrage within the spot foreign exchange market using high-frequency executable prices. We show that triangular arbitrage opportunities do exist, but that most have short durations and small magnitudes. We find intra-day variations in the number and length of arbitrage opportunities, with la…
Paper compares ETF and futures carry rates in segmented Bitcoin markets.
A new method simulates implied volatility surfaces for multiple assets.
Study uses SABR model to create implied volatilities from sparse quotes.
Generalizes optimal portfolio theory to include capital gains taxes.
Two ML approaches learn local volatility surfaces from option prices, with GP being arbitrage-free.
A model-free framework extracts risk-neutral densities from short-dated options.
We present an explicit hedging strategy, which enables to prove arbitrageness of market incorporating at least two assets depending on the same random factor. The implied Black-Scholes volatility, computed taking into account the form of the graph of the option price, related to our strategy, demonstrates the "skewness…
Strict local martingales may admit arbitrage opportunities with respect to the class of simple trading strategies. (Since there is no possibility of using doubling strategies in this framework, the losses are not assumed to be bounded from below.) We show that for a class of non-negative strict local martingales, the s…
New framework improves option pricing models by addressing volatility dynamics.
In frictionless financial markets, no-arbitrage is a local property in time. This means that a discrete time model is arbitrage-free if and only if there does not exist a one-period-arbitrage. With capital gains taxes, this equivalence fails. For a model with a linear tax and one non-shortable risky stock, we introduce…
ARBITER learns SPX-VIX term structures without arbitrage constraints.
In discrete time markets with proportional transaction costs, Schachermayer (2004) shows that robust no-arbitrage is equivalent to the existence of a strictly consistent price system. In this paper, we introduce the concept of prospective strict no-arbitrage that is a variant of the strict no-arbitrage property from Ka…
If financial markets displayed the informational efficiency postulated in the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), arbitrage operations would be self-extinguishing. The present paper considers arbitrage sequences in foreign exchange (FX) markets, in which trading platforms and information are fragmented. In Kozyakin et …
Deep Hedging learns risk-neutral vol dynamics for option pricing.
We show that the frequent claim that the implied tree prices exotic options consistently with the market is untrue if the local volatilities are subject to change and the market is arbitrage-free. In the process, we analyse -- in the most general context -- the impact of stochastic variables on the P&L of a hedged port…
PolySwarm uses a swarm of LLMs to predict and arbitrage prediction markets.
Within the well-known framework of financial portfolio optimization, we analyze the existing relationships between the condition of arbitrage and the utility maximization in presence of \emph{insider information}. We assume that, since the initial time, the information flow is altered by adding the knowledge of an addi…
We discuss the finding that cross-sectional characteristic based models have yielded portfolios with higher excess monthly returns but lower risk than their arbitrage pricing theory counterparts in an analysis of equity returns of stocks listed on the JSE. Under the assumption of general no-arbitrage conditions, we arg…
A method using optimal transport removes arbitrage in option prices for stress-testing.
The implied volatility surface (IVS) is a fundamental building block in computational finance. We provide a survey of methodologies for constructing such surfaces. We also discuss various topics which can influence the successful construction of IVS in practice: arbitrage-free conditions in both strike and time, how to…
A new method constructs smooth, arbitrage-free option surfaces efficiently.