Model shows stock markets can be inefficiently mispriced.
problem Limits of informationally efficient stock markets.
method Chartist-fundamentalist model with chartists and fundamentalists trading conditions.
result Stock markets can exhibit constant or oscillatory mispricing.
We extend the theory of asymmetric information in mispricing models for stocks following geometric Brownian motion to constant relative risk averse investors. Mispricing follows a continuous mean--reverting Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process. Optimal portfolios and maximum expected log--linear utilities from terminal wealth f…
GIFsentiment predicts stock market returns and investor sentiment from social media GIFs.
problem Understanding investor sentiment in the stock market.
method Constructing a sentiment index from social media GIFs and analyzing its correlation with market returns and volume.
result GIFsentiment positively predicts stock market returns and negatively predicts returns for up to four weeks.
The study examines stock splits and their effects on companies, managers, and shareholders.
problem Misunderstandings and confounding factors around stock splits and their impacts.
method Selected database analysis of nine recent events, examining market impact, trading volume, and shareholder base.
result Stock splits enhance trading volume, increase shareholder base, and improve market liquidity.
Social media hype can misprice IPO stocks, leading to short-term gains but long-term losses.
problem Mispricing of IPO stocks due to social media hype.
method Analysis of investor emotions on StockTwits and Twitter.
result High pre-IPO enthusiasm leads to higher short-term returns but lower long-term returns.
This article examines arbitrage investment in a mispriced asset when the mispricing follows the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and a credit-constrained investor maximizes a generalization of the Kelly criterion. The optimal differentiable and threshold policies are derived. The optimal differentiable policy is linear with …
Improved financial market calibration reveals large excess volatility.
problem Large excess volatility in financial markets.
method Extended Chiarella model to handle long-term value drifts, calibrated on multiple asset classes.
result Large excess volatility (factor ≈ 4 for stock indices) and bimodal mispricing distribution.
Study confirms mispricing in sportsbooks but finds data issues affect results.
problem Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks.
method Replication using Wikipedia buzz factor metric and backtesting.
result Data quality issues affect betting results; only one strategy remains profitable.
Paper proposes a new trading strategy using corporate event detection from news articles.
problem Predicting stock movements based on corporate events from news articles.
method Bi-level event detection model: low-level for token-level event identification, high-level for article-level event identification.
result The proposed strategy outperforms existing models in stock prediction metrics.
Investors mispricing volatility and jump sensitivity in Delta hedging models still super-replicate the true claim.
problem Investors misestimate volatility and jump sensitivity in Delta hedging models.
method Analyzes the robustness of Delta hedging in jump-diffusion models, proving stochastic flow properties and convexity of value functions.
result An erroneously computed Delta strategy super-replicates the true claim in expectation under a wide class of models.
Develops a framework for identifying mispriced assets through attention factors for statistical arbitrage.
problem Identifying mispriced assets in statistical arbitrage trading.
method Uses conditional latent factors learned from firm characteristic embeddings to identify time-series signals and form a trading strategy.
result Achieves an out-of-sample Sharpe ratio above 4 on the largest U.S. equities over a 24-year period.
Repo dealers' market power affects bond prices by up to 2 percentage points.
problem Market power of repo dealers impacts bond prices and liquidity.
method Proprietary data on repo and reverse-repo trades analyzed.
result Market power of repo dealers accounts for 0.5-1.3 percentage points of bond yield deviation.
We find stationary distributions in a financial model with trends and mean-reversion.
problem Financial markets with competing trends and mean-reversion.
method Analytical derivation of stationary distributions in various noise and feedback regimes.
result The distributions are unimodal Gaussians in small noise, small feedback limits, but can be bimodal for stronger trends.
Novel pairs trading strategy for cointegrated cryptocurrencies using copulas.
problem Identifying profitable trading opportunities in cointegrated cryptocurrency pairs.
method Linear and non-linear cointegration tests, correlation coefficient, copula families, back-testing.
result The strategy outperforms buy-and-hold trading strategies in profitability and risk-adjusted returns.
A new deep learning model improves asset pricing predictions.
problem Improving asset pricing models for better predictions.
method Pseudo-Siamese Network (SNAP) for conditional asset pricing.
result The SNAP model outperforms benchmarks in out-of-sample prediction and Sharpe ratio.
New COS method formula improves option pricing accuracy.
problem Determining the optimal truncation range for COS method.
method Derive new formula using Markov's inequality to ensure convergence.
result New formula leads to more accurate option pricing.
Factor Engine simplifies financial factor computation and analysis in Python.
problem Efficient computation and analysis of financial factors.
method Modular, extensible Python library with decorators, integrates with data science ecosystem.
result Mispricing factors computed by Factor Engine and Stata implementation are highly similar.
A new method uses preference relations to reconcile contradictory trading signals from multiple securities.
problem Difficulty in exploiting multiple pairs trading signals due to contradictions.
method Proposes a portfolio construction method based on preference relation graphs to reconcile contradictory signals.
result Portfolios based on preference relations exhibit robust returns even with high transaction costs and improve with more securities considered.
Polymarket users exploit mispriced assets for profit.
problem Arbitrage opportunities in prediction markets.
method Empirical analysis using on-chain historical order book data.
result 40 million USD of profit extracted from arbitrage opportunities.
We introduce and study a non-equilibrium continuous-time dynamical model of the price of a single asset traded by a population of heterogeneous interacting agents in the presence of uncertainty and regulatory constraints. The model takes into account (i) the price formation delay between decision and investment by the …
Study quantifies model risk in cyber insurance, affecting premium pricing.
problem Model risk and risk sensitivity in cyber insurance pricing.
method Robust estimators for model parameters and dependence analysis.
result Robust estimation improves tail index and joint loss model accuracy.
The modelling of financial markets presents a problem which is both theoretically challenging and practically important. The theoretical aspects concern the issue of market efficiency which may even have political implications \cite{Cuthbertson}, whilst the practical side of the problem has clear relevance to portfolio…
In this work we consider three problems of the standard market approach to pricing of credit index options: the definition of the index spread is not valid in general, the usually considered payoff leads to a pricing which is not always defined, and the candidate numeraire one would use to define a pricing measure is n…
Study improves machine learning for long-term financial portfolio management.
problem Machine learning precision declines with long-term data.
method Data augmentation using multiple time scales and learning data.
result Generalization performance can be maintained for long-term tasks.
Study finds cryptoasset markets inefficient due to capital reallocation frictions.
problem Inefficiency in cryptoasset markets due to capital reallocation frictions.
method Examined investments with dominant and secondary risk factors, derived equilibrium restrictions, and tested empirically.
result Empirical results strongly reject necessary equilibrium restrictions, indicating market inefficiency.
This paper investigates - on the basis of the Cont-Bouchaud model - whether a Tobin tax can stabilize foreign exchange markets. Compared to earlier studies, this paper explicitly recognizes that a transaction tax-induced reduction in market depth may increase the price responsiveness of a given order. We find that the …
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index, VIX, is calculated based on prices of out-of-the-money put and call options on the S&P 500 index (SPX). Sometimes called the "investor fear gauge," the VIX is a measure of the implied volatility of the SPX, and is observed to be correlated with the 30-day real…
This paper presents a new model for pricing financial derivatives subject to collateralization. It allows for collateral arrangements adhering to bankruptcy laws. As such, the model can back out the market price of a collateralized contract. This framework is very useful for valuing outstanding derivatives. Using a uni…
In light of the power problems of statistical tests and undisciplined use of alpha-based statistics to compare models, this paper proposes a unified set of distance-based performance metrics, derived as the square root of the sum of squared alphas and squared standard errors. The Bayesian investor views model performan…
Trend and Value are pervasive anomalies, common to all financial markets. We address the problem of their co-existence and interaction within the framework of Heterogeneous Agent Based Models (HABM). More specifically, we extend the Chiarella (1992) model by adding noise traders and a non-linear demand of fundamentalis…
Optimal trading strategy with unobservable pricing errors for co-integrated assets.
problem Dynamic portfolio optimization of convergence trading with unobservable pricing errors.
method Modeling of convergence trading strategy with unobservable Markov-modulated pricing errors, extending Liu and Timmermann (2013) model.
result Characterization of optimal portfolio strategies in full and partial information settings.
Study shows cognitive load impacts financial market efficiency, especially for less sophisticated investors.
problem Cognitive load's effect on financial market information processing.
method Developed a theoretical framework and tested it with exogenous disclosure complexity variation.
result Cognitive load significantly impairs price discovery, particularly for less sophisticated investors.
Agent maximizes utility with pathwise constraint on portfolio value.
problem Maximizing utility with a pathwise constraint on portfolio value.
method Max-plus decomposition for supermartingales, Black-Scholes-Merton model.
result Explicit form of optimal terminal wealth and process involved.
The paper models insurance market dynamics under uncertainty and financial frictions.
problem Modeling insurer behavior under uncertainty and financial frictions.
method Dynamic equilibrium model of insurance market with competitive insurers maximizing shareholder value.
result Investment can lead to lower insurance prices and negative loadings under certain conditions.
REST framework predicts stock trends by considering stock-specific and related-stock events.
problem Predicting stock trends using event information from news, social media, and discussion boards.
method REST framework addresses two main shortcomings of existing event-driven methods: stock-specific event influence and related-stock event influence.
result REST framework achieves higher investment returns compared to baselines.
Geography effect is investigated for the Chinese stock market including the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, based on the daily data of individual stocks. The Shanghai city and the Guangdong province can be identified in the stock geographical sector. By investigating a geographical correlation on a geographical pa…
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.
A simple and elegant arrangement of stock components of a portfolio (market index-DJIA) in a recent paper [1], has led to the construction of crossing of stocks diagram. The crossing stocks method revealed hidden remarkable algebraic and geometrical aspects of stock market. The present paper continues to uncover new ma…
Improved S&P stock prediction by integrating related stocks' data.
problem Lack of comprehensive data in stock prediction models.
method Enriched stock data with related stocks, tested five similarity functions, and used co-integration similarity for best results.
result Prediction model on similar stocks had significantly better accuracy and profit.
Graham's formula simplifies stock valuation for growth stocks.
problem Valuing growth stocks using a simple yet effective formula.
method Presenting a practical methodology to calculate and compare growth stocks.
result Demonstrates a scoring system to compare growth stocks.
It seems to be very unlikely that all relevant information in the stock market could be fully encoded in a geometrical shape. Still,the present paper will reveal the geometry behind the stock market transactions. The prices of market index (DJIA) stock components are arranged in ascending order from the smallest one in…
We investigate the strength and the direction of information transfer in the U.S. stock market between the composite stock price index of stock market and prices of individual stocks using the transfer entropy. Through the directionality of the information transfer, we find that individual stocks are influenced by the …
Paper uses HGNN to predict stock types from relationships and temporal data.
problem Predicting stock types from complex market data.
method Integrates stock relationships and temporal data using HGNN.
result Effective prediction of stock types with HGNN model.
Study reveals the 2020 U.S. stock crash was endogenous, not caused by COVID.
problem Understanding the cause of the 2020 U.S. stock market crash.
method Applied log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS) methodology to analyze four major U.S. stock market indexes.
result The 2020 U.S. stock market crash was endogenous, stemming from systemic instability, not COVID.
Green stocks show less factor exposure heterogeneity compared to brown stocks.
problem Exploring differences in factor exposure between green and brown stocks.
method Examined S&P 500 firms grouped by greenhouse gas emissions, analyzing factor exposure over 2014-2020.
result Green stocks have less factor exposure heterogeneity than brown stocks, except for the value factor.
We investigated the topological properties of stock networks through a comparison of the original stock network with the estimated stock network from the correlation matrix created by the random matrix theory (RMT). We used individual stocks traded on the market indices of Korea, Japan, Canada, the USA, Italy, and the …
A new framework forecasts stock trends by mining shared information from concepts.
problem Forecasting stock trends using static concept information limits accuracy.
method Proposes a graph-based framework that mines concept-oriented shared information from both predefined and hidden concepts.
result Improves stock trend forecasting performance through dynamic concept relevance and hidden concept information.
Stock prediction aims to predict the future trends of a stock in order to help investors to make good investment decisions. Traditional solutions for stock prediction are based on time-series models. With the recent success of deep neural networks in modeling sequential data, deep learning has become a promising choice…