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48 results for mechanical trading

Paper adds a restart mechanism to a drawdown control policy for better trading performance.

problem Missed profitable opportunities when drawdown limit is close to reality.
method Integrates a data-driven restart mechanism into the drawdown modulation trading system.
result The restart mechanism improves trading performance even with transaction costs.

Study classifies stock price data into stationary and non-stationary periods for mechanical trading.

problem Classifying stock price fluctuations into stationary and non-stationary periods for trading.
method Stationarity analysis using KM2_2O-Langevin theory and trend-based indicators for stationary periods, oscillator-based indicators for non-stationary periods.
result Back testing confirms the strategy is a safe trading strategy with small maximum drawdown.

Algorithm recommends trades based on crypto asset prices and market conditions.

problem Optimizing trades in volatile crypto markets to minimize gas fees and slippage.
method Cascading Waterfall Round Robin Mechanism considering gas fees and slippage.
result Algorithmic approach reduces market noise and ensures sound trade execution.

Econophysics provides a strategy for understanding the potential mechanisms underlying the anomalous distribution of wealth found in real societies. We present a computational nonlinear stochastic model for the distribution of wealth that depends upon three parameters and two mechanisms: trade and investment. To avoid …

2003-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The Sampled Gaussian Mechanism's noise level decreases with larger subsampling rates, improving privacy-utility trade-offs.

problem Improving privacy-utility trade-offs in differentially private stochastic optimization.
method Proof of a conjecture about the Sampled Gaussian Mechanism's noise level and subsampling rate relationship.
result A rigorous proof of the conjecture, completing the proof of Theorem 6.2 in the original paper.

This work's purpose is to understand the dynamics of limit order books in order-driven markets. We try to illustrate a dynamical trading mechanism attached to the microstructure of limit order markets. We capture the iterative nature of trading processes, which is critical in the dynamics of bid-ask pairs and the switc…

2013-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper compares AMMs and LOBs in exchange mechanisms, formalizing complexity vs. expressiveness trade-offs.

problem Designing efficient exchange mechanisms between assets.
method Formalizes a complexity-approximation trade-off for CFMMs and LOBs, introducing an exchange complexity measure.
result Optimally expressive mechanisms can be designed with minimal complexity, allowing for arbitrary demand curves.

FutureQuant Transformer predicts price ranges and volatility for futures trading.

problem Complex futures trading with real-time LOBs and vast data.
method FutureQuant Transformer model using attention mechanisms.
result Significantly improved trading performance with an average gain of 0.1193%.

TradeMech nets trades without changing counterparty relationships.

problem Netting trades without altering counterparty exposure in complex financial networks.
method Transforms contracts into chains and cycles, nets designated object multilaterally, and replaces contracts with new multiparty agreements.
result Maximal multilateral netting of a designated object while preserving each agent's profit and counterparty risk.

We introduce a prototype model in an attempt to capture some aspects of market dynamics simulating a trading mechanism. The model description starts with a discrete-space, continuous-time Markov process describing arrival and movement of orders with different prices. We then perform a re-scaling procedure leading to a …

2012-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

AI agents in experimental markets exhibit behavioral patterns that aggregate into market dynamics.

problem Understanding AI trading behavior and its impact on market dynamics.
method Experimental asset markets populated by AI agents trained on Large Language Models (LLMs).
result AI agents' behavior leads to market dynamics similar to human traders, including bubbles.

In this study, we investigate the statistical properties of the returns and the trading volume. We show a typical example of power-law distributions of the return and of the trading volume. Next, we propose an interacting agent model of stock markets inspired from statistical mechanics [24] to explore the empirical fin…

2013-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

LMoE uses LLMs to improve stock trading by selecting experts based on textual and price data.

problem Traditional neural network-based router selection in MoE models is suboptimal and ignores textual data.
method Proposes LLMoE, using LLMs as routers to select experts based on historical price data and stock news.
result LLoM outperforms state-of-the-art MoE models and other deep neural network approaches.

This paper uses CGANs to simulate and improve trading agent performance in limit order books.

problem Improving trading agent performance in limit order book environments.
method Investigates conditional generative models (CGANs) for order book simulation and adversarial attacks to enhance realism and robustness.
result CGANs can be improved to better simulate real market conditions and are more robust to adversarial attacks.

Intelligent Momentum Transformer outperforms traditional trading strategies.

problem Improving time-series momentum and mean-reversion trading strategies.
method Attention-based deep-learning architecture (Momentum Transformer) combining attention and LSTM.
result Momentum Transformer outperforms benchmarks and adapts to new market regimes.

Deep Q-Learning system for straddle options in volatile markets.

problem High computational costs and unstable performance in high-volatility markets.
method Attention mechanisms in Transformer-DDQN, novel reward function, and resistance level identification.
result Transformer-DDQN model exhibits lowest maximum drawdown and highest average return.

We introduce the stochastic multiplicative point process modelling trading activity of financial markets. Such a model system exhibits power-law spectral density S(f) ~ 1/f**beta, scaled as power of frequency for various values of beta between 0.5 and 2. Furthermore, we analyze the relation between the power-law autoco…

2004-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Financial asset markets are sociotechnical systems whose constituent agents are subject to evolutionary pressure as unprofitable agents exit the marketplace and more profitable agents continue to trade assets. Using a population of evolving zero-intelligence agents and a frequent batch auction price-discovery mechanism…

2018-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves privacy bounds for DP algorithms using ff-DP.

problem Difficulty in analyzing randomness in DP algorithms due to mixture distributions.
method Derives a closed-form expression for trade-off functions and analyzes ff-DP.
result Enhances privacy of DP-GD with random initialization and shuffling models.

Conformal-DP improves differential privacy on manifold data by calibrating perturbations based on local densities.

problem Lack of density-awareness in existing differential privacy mechanisms for manifold data leads to biased and suboptimal privacy-utility trade-offs.
method Proposes Conformal-DP, a density-aware differential privacy mechanism using conformal transformations to calibrate perturbations based on local densities.
result Demonstrates improved privacy-utility trade-off in heterogeneous data distribution settings compared to state-of-the-art mechanisms.

Study automates feature selection and clustering for HFT stock price forecasting.

problem Manual feature selection and clustering for high-frequency trading (HFT) stock price forecasting.
method Dual competitive feature importance mechanism and clustering via shallow neural network topology.
result Enhanced forecasting ability of the RBFNN regressor through automated feature selection and clustering.

Enhanced Momentum Transformer outperforms traditional trading strategies.

problem Improving trading performance in equities with evolving market conditions.
method Building a Momentum Transformer using an attention mechanism combined with LSTM, capturing long-term dependencies and transaction costs.
result Average returns of 4.14% and Sharpe ratio of 1.12, similar to original results but with higher volatility.

Study predicts stock transaction durations using LSTM and attention mechanism.

problem Estimating the probability density function of transaction durations in financial markets.
method Proposes a hybrid model combining LSTM networks and attention mechanism to extend ACD model.
result Demonstrates superior performance of the hybrid model on large-scale financial data.

Study finds price impact follows a 'double' square-root law, suggesting mechanical origin.

problem Understanding the origin of price impact in markets.
method Detailed dataset of Tokyo Stock Exchange orders, analyzing single and metaorders.
result Price impact follows a 'double' square-root law, indicating mechanical origin rather than information.

Analyzing real data on international trade covering the time interval 1950-2000, we show that in each year over the analyzed period the network is a typical representative of the ensemble of maximally random weighted networks, whose directed connections (bilateral trade volumes) are only characterized by the product of…

2011-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved ABFMs capture market complexities, aiding policy decisions.

problem Limited usefulness of current ABFMs due to missing microstructure and agent behaviors.
method Developed ABMMS with realistic market structure, communication, and auction mechanisms; populated with adaptive agents.
result Generated data from ABMMS more accurately reflects real market phenomena.

LDP is equivalent to contraction of E_γ-divergence, impacting privacy and utility.

problem Analyzing trade-offs between privacy and utility in estimation problems.
method Equivalence of LDP constraints to contraction coefficients of E_γ-divergence, using f-divergences and estimation-theoretic tools.
result LDP guarantees can be expressed in terms of contraction coefficients of arbitrary f-divergences.

The distribution of wealth among the members of a society is herein assumed to result from two fundamental mechanisms, trade and investment. An empirical distribution of wealth shows an abrupt change between the low-medium range, that may be fitted by a non-monotonic function with an exponential-like tail such as a Gam…

2004-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

MacroHFT uses memory and context-aware reinforcement learning to improve HFT performance.

problem Overfitting and biased decisions in HFT due to rapid market changes.
method Memory Augmented Context-aware Reinforcement Learning (MacroHFT) that trains multiple sub-agents and a hyper-agent.
result MacroHFT achieves state-of-the-art performance on minute-level trading tasks.