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48 results for short-term signals

Study finds short-term trading signals can enhance alpha in U.S. S&P 500 portfolios.

problem Traditional factor investing misses real-time market dislocations.
method Double-selection LASSO framework to control for fundamental factors and isolate trading signals.
result 17 distinct trading signals capture significant risk premiums and enhance portfolio diversification.

Model combines long-term and short-term memory using conceptors.

problem Transfer between long-term and short-term memory.
method Recurrent neural network with gated reservoir for short-term memory and conceptors for long-term memory.
result Standard operations on conceptors allow combining long-term memories and describing their effect on short-term memory.

Paper presents methods to create stock price confidence intervals using LSTM models.

problem Creating accurate confidence intervals for LSTM-estimated stock prices.
method Three bootstrap methods for dependent data, optimal block length selection, and benchmark comparison.
result Illustrated through stock price data, different bootstrap strategies provide varying confidence intervals.

Unified deep learning approach for time series forecasting using VMD-CNN-LSTM.

problem Time series forecasting problem.
method Proposes a unified deep learning approach with decomposition-reconstruction-ensemble framework using VMD-CNN-LSTM.
result The proposed approach outperforms benchmark approaches in forecasting accuracy.

Short-term trend-following has stopped delivering profits since 2009, especially on smaller market ticks.

problem The profitability of short-term trend-following has declined since 2009.
method Cross-sectional analysis of 100 liquid futures contracts from 1995-2025, evaluating four explanations.
result The decline in short-term trend-following profits is linked to smaller market ticks, not asset class or liquidity.

Study causal financial signals for non-stationary markets, improving short-term forecasts.

problem Short-term forecasting in non-stationary financial markets under causal constraints.
method Construct causal signals from heterogeneous micro-features using causal centering, linear aggregation, Kalman filter, and forward-like operator.
result Causally constructed observables can exhibit substantial economic relevance in specific regimes but degrade under regime shifts.

LSTMs improve bond yield forecasting with unique signals.

problem Improving bond yield forecasting accuracy.
method Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks with sequence-to-sequence architectures and LSTM-LagLasso methodology.
result Univariate LSTM models with additional memory can achieve similar results as multivariate MLP models using exogenous information.

Comparative study of neural networks for short-term FOREX forecasting.

problem Simulating expert judgment in foreign exchange market forecasting.
method Implemented and compared LSTM and ANN architectures for short-term FOREX forecasting.
result ANN custom architecture outperforms LSTM in prediction quality and resource efficiency.

Improved crypto market forecasting using historical price reactions to tweets.

problem Challenges in inferring market impact from human sentiment labels.
method Market-derived labeling approach to assign tweet sentiment labels based on historical price trends. Fine-tuned language model with context-aware prompt-tuning.
result 89.6% accuracy on Bitcoin news events, outperforming traditional fusion models.

We compare optimal static and dynamic solutions in trade execution. An optimal trade execution problem is considered where a trader is looking at a short-term price predictive signal while trading. When the trader creates an instantaneous market impact, it is shown that transaction costs of optimal adaptive strategies …

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses Bayesian models to analyze CTA returns across short and long-term trends.

problem The relative merits and interactions of short- and long-term trend systems in CTA replication remain controversial.
method Dynamic decomposition of CTA returns into short-term trend, long-term trend, and market beta factors using a Bayesian graphical model.
result The blend of horizons shapes the strategy's risk-adjusted performance.

Optimal trading is a recent field of research which was initiated by Almgren, Chriss, Bertsimas and Lo in the late 90's. Its main application is slicing large trading orders, in the interest of minimizing trading costs and potential perturbations of price dynamics due to liquidity shocks. The initial optimization frame…

2017-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

YC Bench forecasts startup success in Y Combinator batches with a short-term metric.

problem Difficult forecasting of startup success due to sparse meaningful outcomes and slow evaluation cycles.
method Developed a live benchmark using publicly available traction signals and web visibility metrics.
result Revealed 6 out of 11 top performers at YC Demo Day with a simple proxy for prior brand recognition.

A method for inferring ground-truth signals from degraded sensor data.

problem Inferring ground-truth signals from multiple degraded sensor signals.
method Iterative correction of degraded signals using a Bayesian multi-sensor data fusion method.
result The method effectively infers ground-truth signals from noisy and degraded sensor data.

FinRLlama wins FinRL Challenge 2024 by fine-tuning LLMs with market data.

problem Lack of contextual alignment for financial market applications in traditional LLMs.
method Fine-tuning LLaMA-3.2-3B-Instruct model with custom RLMF prompt design integrating historical data and reward feedback.
result RLMF-tuned FinRLlama framework outperforms baseline methods in signal consistency and trading outcomes.

High-performing equity factor with Sharpe ratio above 13 out-of-sample.

problem Hidden cross-sectional predictability in stock returns.
method Regime-conditional signal activation combining value and short-term reversal signals.
result Annualized returns of 158.6% with 12.0% volatility, strong performance out-of-sample.

PHASE predicts surgical complications from physiological signals.

problem Predicting adverse surgical outcomes from physiological signals.
method Self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals.
result PHASE outperforms other approaches in predicting five surgical complications.

RL agent learns to place limit orders for trading signals in financial markets.

problem Training an RL agent to execute trading signals in limit order book markets.
method Deep Duelling Double Q-learning with APEX architecture, using synthetic alpha signals.
result RL agent outperforms heuristic trading strategies in inventory management and order placing.

Given the recent surge in developments of deep learning, this article provides a review of the state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for audio signal processing. Speech, music, and environmental sound processing are considered side-by-side, in order to point out similarities and differences between the domains, hig…

2019-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Neural Networks detect gravitational wave events with high accuracy and real-time potential.

problem Detecting and identifying the full duration of compact binary coalescence events in gravitational wave data.
method Integrating Bayesian approach into a CLDNN classifier that combines CNN and LSTM for event detection and uncertainty estimation.
result Successfully detected all seven BBH events in LIGO Livingston O2 data with high accuracy.

A new method forecasts hourly electricity prices considering product dynamics and limit order book signals.

problem High volatility and imbalance in power systems due to renewable energy and flexible demand.
method Incorporates short-term features from hourly and quarter-hourly products, including limit order book and neighboring product signals.
result Features from the limit order book are most influential, and neighboring product signals improve forecast accuracy.

We apply the Zipf power law to financial time series of WIG20 index daily changes (open-close). Thanks to the mapping of time series signal into the sequence of 2k+1 'spin-like' states, where k=0, 1/2, 1, 3/2, ..., we are able to describe any time series increments, with almost arbitrary accuracy, as the one of such 's…

2011-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Integrating wind power into the grid is challenging because of its random nature. Integration is facilitated with accurate short-term forecasts of wind power. The paper presents a spatio-temporal wind speed forecasting algorithm that incorporates the time series data of a target station and data of surrounding stations…

2015-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Financial trading is at the forefront of time-series analysis, and has grown hand-in-hand with it. The advent of electronic trading has allowed complex machine learning solutions to enter the field of financial trading. Financial markets have both long term and short term signals and thus a good predictive model in fin…

2018-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The study finds cash productivity predicts stock performance in a specific subset of firms.

problem Predicting future stock performance using cash productivity.
method Using financial and market data, calculated cash returns as a proxy for operational efficiency, and tested a long-only strategy on Nasdaq-listed non-financial firms.
result Cash productivity has significant predictive power in a handpicked portfolio but limited across the broader Nasdaq universe.

Effective and powerful methods for denoising real electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are important for wearable sensors and devices. Deep Learning (DL) models have been used extensively in image processing and other domains with great success but only very recently have been used in processing ECG signals. This paper pres…

2019-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article, we discuss various implementation of L1 filtering in order to detect some properties of noisy signals. This filter consists of using a L1 penalty condition in order to obtain the filtered signal composed by a set of straight trends or steps. This penalty condition, which determines the number of breaks…

2014-03-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Social media signals have been successfully used to develop large-scale predictive and anticipatory analytics. For example, forecasting stock market prices and influenza outbreaks. Recently, social data has been explored to forecast price fluctuations of cryptocurrencies, which are a novel disruptive technology with si…

2019-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling price impacts and trading signals for optimal execution and speculation.

problem Optimal execution and speculation in markets with trade signals.
method Price impact model driven by order flow, stochastic price impact, Meyer-σσ-fields signal process, Marcus-type SDEs.
result Derivation and numerical solution of HJB equation for optimal execution, enhanced speculative strategies.

Quaternion neural networks improve distant speech recognition.

problem Challenges in distant speech recognition due to noise and reverberation.
method Quaternion neural networks process multi-channel audio signals as quaternion entities, capturing internal and external dependencies.
result QLSTM outperforms real-valued LSTM on multi-channel distant speech recognition tasks.

Machine learning models outperform traditional technical analysis in Bitcoin trading.

problem Maximizing profits in the Bitcoin market using trading signals.
method Comparison of machine learning models (LightGBM, LSTM) and technical analysis strategies (EMA, MACD+ADX).
result LSTM model achieved a 65.23% cumulative return over a year, significantly outperforming other strategies.

This paper addresses the energy disaggregation problem, i.e. decomposing the electricity signal of a whole home to its operating devices. First, we cast the problem as a dictionary learning (DL) problem where the key electricity patterns representing consumption behaviors are extracted for each device and stored in a d…

2018-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes novel hedging strategies using LSTM models for diversified investment portfolios.

problem Hedging risky asset portfolios in turbulent financial markets.
method Four diverse models (LSTM, ARIMA-GARCH, momentum, contrarian) generate price forecasts for diversified AIS.
result LSTM-based strategies outperform other models, with Bitcoin being the best diversifier for S&P 500 index.

New neural network extracts signal components and their IFs from non-uniform samples.

problem Recovering signal components and their IFs from discrete blind-source data.
method Inspired by theory, deep neural network extends Hilbert transform and synchrosqueezed wavelet transform.
result Neural network resolves inverse problem for non-uniformly sampled data.