Marxism's rate of profit thesis rejected as illogical.
problem Marxism's rate of profit thesis is challenged as illogical.
method Rejects Marx's thesis on the long-term tendency of the rate of profit to fall.
result Marxism's rate of profit thesis is rejected as illogical.
Study on energy storage's impact on electricity prices and profitability.
problem Analyzing the profitability of energy storage in electricity markets.
method Characterized optimal operating strategy for storage systems, determined equilibrium price in a market with storage, renewables, and conventional producers, and characterized price process using stochastic differential equations.
result Increased average revenues and interquantile ranges for storage assets in energy transition scenarios.
A feature-rich Bitcoin trading assistant using reinforcement learning.
problem Predicting and analyzing Bitcoin market trends for long-term profits.
method Reinforcement learning with technical indicators and Twitter sentiment scores.
result Average profit of 69% over 685 days, including the Covid-19 period.
We investigate the structure of the profit landscape obtained from the most basic, fluctuation based, trading strategy applied for the daily stock price data. The strategy is parameterized by only two variables, p and q. Stocks are sold and bought if the log return is bigger than p and less than -q, respectively. Repet…
A quantitative check of weak efficiency in US dollar/German mark exchange rates is developed using high frequency data. We show the existence of long term return anomalies. We introduce a technique to measure the available information and show it can be profitable following a particular trading rule.
This paper monetizes customer load data to boost energy retailer profits.
problem Improving load forecasts to reduce energy imbalance costs.
method Cooperative game theory approach to quantify and distribute profits.
result Retailer gains significant profit from customer load data.
The paper develops diverse risk models for US stock portfolios.
problem Maximizing profits while minimizing risk in stock markets.
method Various high-dimensional risk models and investment strategies tested.
result Out-of-sample tests show improved portfolio performance.
This paper reexamines the profitability of loser, winner and contrarian portfolios in the Chinese stock market using monthly data of all stocks traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange covering the period from January 1997 to December 2012. We find evidence of short-term and long-term contraria…
LemonadeBench evaluates LLMs' economic intuition through a simulated lemonade stand.
problem Evaluating LLMs' economic understanding and decision-making in simple markets.
method Simulated lemonade stand business to test LLMs' long-term planning and profit maximization.
result Models achieve profitability but exhibit local rather than global optimization.
Corporate transparency reduces investors' disposition effect by increasing confidence in holding profitable and losing stocks.
problem Irrational disposition effect in investors selling profitable assets too soon and holding onto losing assets for too long.
method Examined the impact of corporate transparency on individual investors' disposition effect.
result Increased corporate transparency significantly reduces the disposition effect.
Study examines impact of capital structure on Indian auto companies' profitability.
problem Understanding the impact of capital structure on profitability of Indian auto companies.
method Used fixed and random effect models with 10 years of data from 17 companies.
result Optimal capital structure improves company performance and maintains capital adequacy.
Mean-reverting assets are one of the holy grails of financial markets: if such assets existed, they would provide trivially profitable investment strategies for any investor able to trade them, thanks to the knowledge that such assets oscillate predictably around their long term mean. The modus operandi of cointegratio…
CREDIT learns to master pair trading with risk-aware RL, outperforming existing methods.
problem Challenges in applying RL to pair trading due to temporal correlations and risk considerations.
method Risk-aware recurrent reinforcement learning (RL) with bidirectional GRU and temporal attention.
result CREDIT achieves significant profit in pair trading over five years of U.S. stock data.
Although technical trading rules have been widely used by practitioners in financial markets, their profitability still remains controversial. We here investigate the profitability of moving average (MA) and trading range break (TRB) rules by using the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SHCI) from May 21, 1992 th…
The paper analyzes Indian stock sectors using multifractal analysis for long and short-term investment.
problem Investment risk and stability in Indian stock sectors.
method Sector-wise multifractal analysis of Bombay Stock Exchange, India, over short and long time scales.
result Long-term investment in stable sectors is more profitable, while sectors with large fluctuations may lead to downturns.
Novel approach predicts long-term seasonal component of electricity prices for improved forecasting.
problem Improving day-ahead electricity price forecasting accuracy.
method Extracts trend-seasonal pattern from extrapolated price series using autoregressive and LASSO models.
result Improves predictive accuracy by 3-15% in root mean squared error and 1% in profits.
We propose a stylized model of production and exchange in which long-term investors set their production decision over a horizon τ , the "time to produce", and are liquidity constrained, while financial investors trade over a much shorter horizon δ (<< τ ) and are therefore more duly informed on the exogenous shocks af…
Professional baseball players are increasingly guaranteed expensive long-term contracts, with over 70 deals signed in excess of \$90 million, mostly in the last decade. These are substantial sums compared to a typical franchise valuation of \$1-2 billion. Hence, the players to whom a team chooses to give such a contrac…
PRUDEX-Compass evaluates FinRL methods on 6 axes for financial market investments.
problem Insufficient evaluation of FinRL methods in financial markets.
method Introduces PRUDEX-Compass with 6 axes and 17 measures for evaluation.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of PRUDEX-Compass on 4 real-world datasets.
Study uses Open Banking data to estimate customer value, showing potential 21% increase.
problem Limited CLV estimation using single-entity data.
method Introduces PCLV framework using Open Banking data for comprehensive customer value estimation.
result Open Banking data can estimate PCLV per competitor, showing a 21.06% increase over Actual CLV.
Study uses machine learning to predict stock trends based on fundamental data.
problem Predicting stock trends using fundamental analysis.
method Used LSTM, 1D CNN, and LR models on financial data.
result Logistic Regression models outperformed other models.
NoxTrader predicts stock returns using LSTM for profitable trading.
problem Predicting profitable stock returns for quantitative trading.
method LSTM model for time-series analysis of stock data.
result Improved investment return from -60% to 325%.
Behavioral theories posit that investor sentiment exhibits predictive power for stock returns, whereas there is little study have investigated the relationship between the time horizon of the predictive effect of investor sentiment and the firm characteristics. To this end, by using a Granger causality analysis in the …
Trading strategy mimics optimal control with simple heuristic.
problem Maximizing profit in markets with limited optimal control.
method Using the gradient of the Bellman value function as effective microstructure alphas.
result Trading strategy approximates optimal behavior in long-term trades.
DeepScalper uses RL to capture intraday trading opportunities, balancing risk and profit.
problem Capturing fleeting intraday trading opportunities in high-frequency markets.
method Dueling Q-network, reward function with hindsight bonus, encoder-decoder architecture, risk-aware auxiliary task.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in financial criteria.
This article presents a stochastic framework to quantify the biometric risk of an insurance portfolio in solvency regimes such as Solvency II or the Swiss Solvency Test (SST). The main difficulty in this context constitutes in the proper representation of long term risks in the profit-loss distribution over a one year …
Hierarchical hidden Markov models predict market trends in financial time series.
problem Misinterpretation of short-term price fluctuations as long-term trend changes.
method Hierarchical hidden Markov models to capture both short- and long-term trends.
result Hierarchical models provide a comprehensive picture of financial markets.
Study growth of LP wealth in G3Ms affected by trading fees and arbitrage.
problem Analyzing profitability of LPs in G3Ms under trading fees and arbitrage.
method Stochastic reflected diffusion processes to model G3M dynamics.
result Long-term expected logarithmic growth of LP wealth calculated.
Quantformer uses transformer to predict stock returns, outperforming traditional strategies.
problem Predicting stock returns in a dynamic financial market.
method Transfer learning from sentiment analysis to build investment factors using a transformer-based neural network.
result Quantformer outperforms other 100-factor-based quantitative strategies in predicting stock trends.
EarnMore uses masked stock representations to train RL agents for customizable stock pools efficiently.
problem Training RL agents for customizable stock pools (CSPs) is computationally expensive and unstable.
method EarnMore introduces a mechanism to mask out stocks outside the target pool, learns meaningful stock representations, and uses a re-weighting mechanism to focus on favorable stocks.
result EarnMore significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in profit metrics with over 40% improvement.
Unified approach to trend-following systems, deriving exact relationships and expected returns.
problem Designing and understanding trend-following systems in financial markets.
method Derive exact relationships, analyze expected returns, and use fractional ARFIMA processes.
result Profitability of trend-following systems depends on positive long-term autocorrelation and excess spectral mass at low frequencies.
Study uses RNN for real-time crypto price prediction and trading optimization.
problem High volatility in cryptocurrency markets makes traditional forecasting models unreliable.
method Data collection, preprocessing, model refinement, and backtesting.
result Improved accuracy in real-time crypto price prediction and optimized trading strategies.
We introduce an agent-based model, in which agents set their prices to maximize profit. At steady state the market self-organizes into three groups: excess producers, consumers and balanced agents, with prices determined by their own resource level and a couple of macroscopic parameters that emerge naturally from the a…
A new framework AlphaMix combines multiple trading experts to improve stock investment decisions.
problem Inconsistent financial predictions and lack of model uncertainty in investment decisions.
method Reformulate quantitative investment as a multi-task learning problem, and propose AlphaMix framework.
result AlphaMix significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in financial criteria.
The goal of this study is to determine which strategic model, either IO or RBV, allows firms to generate the highest performance on a competitive market. Contrasting with classical studies that mobilize analyses as VARCOMP, we deploy a multi-agent system simulating the behavior of firms adopting RBV or IO strategic mod…
The study compares profitability of conventional and Islamic banks in Bangladesh.
problem Evaluating profitability of commercial banks in Bangladesh.
method Examined bank-specific, industry-specific, and banking system factors on profitability.
result Islamic banks consistently outperform conventional banks in profitability.
The profitability of CPMMs is significantly impacted by mint and burn fees.
problem Understanding the profitability of decentralized exchanges.
method Formalized liquidity providers' profitability conditions, studied the effect of mint and burn fees, and compiled a large data set from Uniswap V2 transactions.
result The profitability of liquidity provision is severely affected by mint and burn costs.
Model predicts stock market trends for better investment decisions.
problem Identifying optimal times to buy and sell stocks.
method XGBoost machine learning model using time series data and feature engineering.
result Model accurately predicts stock market trends and their endpoints.
Fossil power firms have recently profited more than renewables, but this may be a temporary phenomenon.
problem The profitability gap between renewable and fossil power firms in Europe.
method Machine-learning clustering and Bayesian model averaging.
result Renewable power firms are becoming more profitable, while fossil power firms are becoming less so.
This paper introduces strategies to maximize arbitrage profits in decentralized exchanges.
problem Maximizing profits from arbitrage loops in decentralized exchanges.
method Three strategies: MaxPrice, MaxMax, and Convex Optimization.
result The Convex Optimization strategy yields the highest monetized arbitrage profit in theory and practice.
As the decade turns, we reflect on nearly thirty years of successful manipulation of the world's public equity markets. This reflection highlights a few of the key enabling ingredients and lessons learned along the way. A quantitative understanding of market impact and its decay, which we cover briefly, lets you move l…
Paper presents a novel approach to predict volatility using robust least squares method.
problem Challenges in predicting volatility due to irregularities, high fluctuations, and noise in financial time series.
method Robust least squares method applied in two approaches: with and without least absolute residuals (LAR).
result Robust least squares method with LAR approach yields better results for volatility and its components.
PRZI traders adapt their quote-prices based on a strategy parameter s, affecting market dynamics.
problem Understanding the dynamics of continuous double auction markets with adaptive traders.
method Introduced a new zero-intelligence trader PRZI that uses a parameterised probability distribution to generate quote-prices. Used a stochastic hill-climber algorithm to adapt strategies based on market conditions.
result The co-evolutionary dynamics of PRZI traders can lead to rich and complex market behaviors, including periods of stability and change.
Equations track profits and losses in trading algorithms.
problem Evaluating the performance of trading algorithms.
method Formal equations incorporating spread.
result Evaluate trading model algorithms' performance.
Few assets in financial history have been as notoriously volatile as cryptocurrencies. While the long term outlook for this asset class remains unclear, we are successful in making short term price predictions for several major crypto assets. Using historical data from July 2015 to November 2019, we develop a large num…
This paper investigates how two important sources of risk -- market tail risk and extreme market volatility risk -- are priced into the cross-section of asset returns across various investment horizons. To identify such risks, we propose a quantile spectral beta representation of risk based on the decomposition of cova…
We analyze annual revenues and earnings data for the 500 largest-revenue U.S. companies during the period 1954-2007. We find that mean year profits are proportional to mean year revenues, exception made for few anomalous years, from which we postulate a linear relation between company expected mean profit and revenue. …
In this article, we analyse optimal statistical arbitrage strategies from stochastic control and optimisation problems for multiple co-integrated stocks with eigenportfolios being factors. Optimal portfolio weights are found by solving a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation, which we solve for bo…