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arXiv · arXiv · 2022

Deep Reinforcement Learning and Convex Mean-Variance Optimisation for Portfolio Management

Traditional portfolio management methods can incorporate specific investor preferences but rely on accurate forecasts of asset returns and covariances. Reinforcement learning (RL) methods do not rely on these explicit forecasts and are better suited for multi-stage decision processes. To address limitations of the evaluated research, experiments were conducted on three markets in different economies with different ov

Ruan Pretorius, Terence van Zyl
arXiv · arXiv · 2020

Liquidity Provider Returns in Geometric Mean Markets

Geometric mean market makers (G3Ms), such as Uniswap and Balancer, comprise a popular class of automated market makers (AMMs) defined by the following rule: the reserves of the AMM before and after each trade must have the same (weighted) geometric mean. This paper extends several results known for constant-weight G3Ms to the general case of G3Ms with time-varying and potentially stochastic weights. These results inc

Alex Evans
arXiv · arXiv · 2023

On Unified Adaptive Black-Litterman Mean-Variance Portfolio Management

This paper proposes a unified adaptive portfolio-management framework that combines factor-based view generation, Black-Litterman (BL) posterior estimation, EWMA covariance estimation, and mean-variance optimization. The key mechanism is a dynamic sliding window that adjusts the estimation horizon according to realized portfolio volatility, thereby updating factor estimates, BL posterior expected returns, and portfol

Chi-Lin Li, Chung-Han Hsieh
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Short-horizon mean reversion in cryptocurrency markets: a matched cross-market measurement

At 15-minute horizons, directional mean reversion is far stronger and more pervasive in cryptocurrency markets than in US equities: scored under one matched, strictly out-of-sample protocol, 90% of 183 Binance pairs carry significant directional reversal against 2.7% of 187 US stocks and ETFs, in every focal coin-year since 2021. The signal lives in signs, not magnitudes: lag-one return autocorrelation is near zero o

Nadav A. Kitron, Jonathan M. Wengrowicz
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Portfolio Allocation: A Comparative Study with Mean-Variance Optimization

Portfolio Management is the process of overseeing a group of investments, referred to as a portfolio, with the objective of achieving predetermined investment goals. Portfolio optimization is a key component that involves allocating the portfolio assets so as to maximize returns while minimizing risk taken. It is typically carried out by financial professionals who use a combination of quantitative techniques and inv

Srijan Sood, Kassiani Papasotiriou, Marius Vaiciulis, Tucker Balch
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Who Restores the Peg? A Mean-Field Game Approach to Model Stablecoin Market Dynamics

USDC and USDT are the dominant stablecoins pegged to \$1 with a total market capitalization of over \$300B and rising. Stablecoins make dollar value globally accessible with secure transfer and settlement. Yet in practice, these stablecoins experience periods of stress and de-pegging from their \$1 target, posing significant systemic risks. The behavior of market participants during these stress events and the collec

Hardhik Mohanty, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
arXiv · arXiv · 2025

Sentiment-Aware Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization for Cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency markets are highly volatile and influenced by both price trends and market sentiment, making effective portfolio management challenging. This paper proposes a dynamic cryptocurrency portfolio strategy that integrates technical indicators and sentiment analysis to enhance investment decision-making. Market momentum is captured using the 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Simple Moving Average (SMA

Qizhao Chen
arXiv · arXiv · 2023

Mean-variance hybrid portfolio optimization with quantile-based risk measure

This paper addresses the importance of incorporating various risk measures in portfolio management and proposes a dynamic hybrid portfolio optimization model that combines the spectral risk measure and the Value-at-Risk in the mean-variance formulation. By utilizing the quantile optimization technique and martingale representation, we offer a solution framework for these issues and also develop a closed-form portfoli

Weiping Wu, Yu Lin, Jianjun Gao, Ke Zhou
arXiv · arXiv · 2022

Automated Market Makers: Mean-Variance Analysis of LPs Payoffs and Design of Pricing Functions

With the emergence of decentralized finance, new trading mechanisms called Automated Market Makers have appeared. The most popular Automated Market Makers are Constant Function Market Makers. They have been studied both theoretically and empirically. In particular, the concept of impermanent loss has emerged and explains part of the profit and loss of liquidity providers in Constant Function Market Makers. In this pa

Philippe Bergault, Louis Bertucci, David Bouba, Olivier Guéant
arXiv · arXiv · 2021

Optimal Fees for Geometric Mean Market Makers

Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) are a family of automated market makers that enable censorship-resistant decentralized exchange on public blockchains. Arbitrage trades have been shown to align the prices reported by CFMMs with those of external markets. These trades impose costs on Liquidity Providers (LPs) who supply reserves to CFMMs. Trading fees have been proposed as a mechanism for compensating LPs for a

Alex Evans, Guillermo Angeris, Tarun Chitra
arXiv · arXiv · 2016

Speculative Futures Trading under Mean Reversion

This paper studies the problem of trading futures with transaction costs when the underlying spot price is mean-reverting. Specifically, we model the spot dynamics by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU), Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR), or exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (XOU) model. The futures term structure is derived and its connection to futures price dynamics is examined. For each futures contract, we describe the evolution of

Tim Leung, Jiao Li, Xin Li, Zheng Wang
arXiv · arXiv · 2015

Optimal Portfolio Liquidation and Dynamic Mean-variance Criterion

In this paper, we consider the optimal portfolio liquidation problem under the dynamic mean-variance criterion and derive time-consistent solutions in three important models. We give adapted optimal strategies under a reconsidered mean-variance subject at any point in time. We get explicit trading strategies in the basic model and when random pricing signals are incorporated. When we consider stochastic liquidity and

Jia-Wen Gu, Mogens Steffensen
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Strategic Index Reconstitution: Differential Games, Closed-Loop Equilibria and Mean-Field Dynamics

We study strategic trading around index reconstitution in a continuous-time, multiasset game with transient cross-asset price impact and heterogeneous beliefs about future index membership. Opportunistic traders position before a public announcement, adjust to the revealed composition, and trade around an indexer following a prescribed execution schedule. Under a no-price-manipulation condition, we construct a subgam

Lukas-Benedikt Fiechtner, Jose Blanchet
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Mean-field equilibrium of heterogeneous agents under market impact

Although market participants generally have access to a common information set, they make decisions based on forecasts formed over heterogeneous horizons. Because market impact depends on aggregate positions rather than trader identities, these decisions feed back into prices through their collective effect. We introduce a linear mean-field model of this interaction. The observed price is decomposed into a martingale

Joseph Leclère, Mathieu Rosenbaum
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Optimal Trading of Microstructure Mean Reversion

At the scale of seconds the observed mid carries a stationary, mean-reverting error around a latent efficient price. We build an order book whose own flow produces that error and solve for the trading rule that maximises the long-run average profit rate net of the bid-ask spread. In a liquid large-tick asset the spread is one tick or two, and it is exactly the parity of the mid on the half-tick grid: tight at a half-

Lucas Rabechini Amaral
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Portfolio Optimization under Fast and Slow Latent Mean-Reverting and Momentum Drift

We consider a class of partial-information portfolio optimization problems in which the drift of a risky asset is driven by two latent stochastic factors evolving at distinct time scales. We show that the filtered estimate of the latent mean-reversion level is driven by the difference between fast and slow exponential moving average (EMA)-type processes of the trailing price history, yielding a Moving Average Converg

Dannin J. Eccles, Roger Lee
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Stochastic Volatility in Mean Models with Heavy Tails: A Fast Approximate Bayesian Inference Using Hidden Markov Models

This paper extends the approximate Bayesian estimation framework for Stochastic Volatility in Mean (SVM) models to accommodate heavy-tailed distributions from the Scale Mixture of Normals (SMN) family. To overcome the computational challenges arising from these models, we propose a numerically stable estimation procedure that exploits special functions to eliminate the need for direct numerical integration. Furthermo

Bruno E. Holtz, Carlos A. Abanto-Valle, Ricardo S. Ehlers, Gabriel Rodríguez
arXiv · arXiv · 2026

Beyond De Prado and Cotton: Hierarchical and Iterative Methods for General Mean-Variance Portfolios

Hierarchical Risk Parity (De Pardo) and the Schur-complement generalization of Cotton are among the most widely adopted regularised portfolio construction methods, yet both are signal-blind: they solve only the minimum-variance problem and cannot accommodate an arbitrary expected-return forecast. This paper introduces three methods that incorporate alpha signals into hierarchical and regularised portfolio constructio

Bernd Johannes Wuebben
Wiki Entities · 18
AI Systems

Word Embedding

A word embedding is a dense vector for a token such that geometry (distance, direction) reflects distributional meaning. It is the input layer of almost every neural NLP model.

CTA

CTA Mean Reversion

Fade stretched moves in futures over short horizons — the anti-trend sleeve that makes money in ranges and loses when a crisis trend persists.

CTA

Intraday CTA

Positions that do not intend to sit overnight — session trends, opening-range breaks, or inventory mean reversion inside the day.

Desk Slang

Behind the Curve

Behind the curve means policy (or a book) is too easy or too slow relative to incoming inflation, growth, or a Taylor-type benchmark — the market is already pricing a catch-up.

Desk Slang

Bidless

Bidless means there is no meaningful posted or workable bid — you can sell only by walking the stairs or waiting, which is how fire sales become prices.

Desk Slang

Cheap vs Rich

Cheap and rich are relative-value words: cheap means wide or low versus a model, a history, or a hedge; rich means tight or expensive on that same yardstick — not ‘I like the story.’

Desk Slang

Fade the Move

To fade the move is to take the other side of a fast print — sell a spike, buy a dump — on the view that it is flow or a squeeze, not a new equilibrium.

Desk Slang

Priced In

Priced in means the event or path is already in the forwards, the curve, or the multiple — so the announcement is not new information unless it surprises that path.

Desk Slang

Stuffed

Stuffed means a dealer or salesperson was left long (or short) inventory they did not want, usually after a client or a syndicate left paper on the desk.

Financial Crises

Russia / LTCM 1998

Russia’s August 1998 default and devaluation blew up leveraged relative-value books, culminating in the LTCM rescue — a reminder that ‘hedged’ can mean ‘short liquidity in every state.’

Mathematics

Expected Value

Expected value is the probability-weighted average of a random variable — the center of the distribution you actually face, not the mode or the ‘base case’ slide.

Mathematics

Variance

Variance is the expected squared deviation from the mean, Var(X) = E[(X − μ)²]. It is the second moment that becomes volatility after a square root and a convention.

Quant

Cointegration Pairs Trading

Cointegration Pairs Trading — Mean-reversion on stationary spreads between related instruments.

Quant

Efficient Frontier

The efficient frontier is the set of mean-variance-optimal portfolios — maximum expected return for each volatility, given the inputs.

Quant

Modern Portfolio Theory

Modern portfolio theory is Markowitz mean-variance optimization — diversify covariances, not just names, to get more return per unit of variance.

Strategies

Currency Value Factor — PPP Strategy

Long undervalued currencies and short overvalued ones versus purchasing-power parity or real-rate gaps — FX value, slow and mean-reverting.

Strategies

Pairs Trading with Country ETFs

Mean-revert spreads between country (or regional) ETFs that usually travel together — pairs at the index layer.

Strategies

Pairs Trading with Stocks

Trade a spread between two historically linked stocks when it is statistically wide, and unwind when it mean-reverts.

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Encyclopedia · 16
Desk Slang · Foundations

Behind the Curve

Behind the curve means policy (or a book) is too easy or too slow relative to incoming inflation, growth, or a Taylor-type benchmark — the market is already pricing a catch-up.

Desk Slang · Foundations

Bidless

Bidless means there is no meaningful posted or workable bid — you can sell only by walking the stairs or waiting, which is how fire sales become prices.

Desk Slang · Foundations

Cheap vs Rich

Cheap and rich are relative-value words: cheap means wide or low versus a model, a history, or a hedge; rich means tight or expensive on that same yardstick — not ‘I like the story.’

Quant · Foundations

Cointegration Pairs Trading

Cointegration Pairs Trading — Mean-reversion on stationary spreads between related instruments.

CTA · Foundations

CTA Mean Reversion

Fade stretched moves in futures over short horizons — the anti-trend sleeve that makes money in ranges and loses when a crisis trend persists.

Strategies · Foundations

Currency Value Factor — PPP Strategy

Long undervalued currencies and short overvalued ones versus purchasing-power parity or real-rate gaps — FX value, slow and mean-reverting.

Quant · Foundations

Efficient Frontier

The efficient frontier is the set of mean-variance-optimal portfolios — maximum expected return for each volatility, given the inputs.

CTA · Foundations

Intraday CTA

Positions that do not intend to sit overnight — session trends, opening-range breaks, or inventory mean reversion inside the day.

Quant · Foundations

Modern Portfolio Theory

Modern portfolio theory is Markowitz mean-variance optimization — diversify covariances, not just names, to get more return per unit of variance.

Strategies · Foundations

Pairs Trading with Country ETFs

Mean-revert spreads between country (or regional) ETFs that usually travel together — pairs at the index layer.

Strategies · Foundations

Pairs Trading with Stocks

Trade a spread between two historically linked stocks when it is statistically wide, and unwind when it mean-reverts.

Desk Slang · Foundations

Priced In

Priced in means the event or path is already in the forwards, the curve, or the multiple — so the announcement is not new information unless it surprises that path.

Financial Crises · Foundations

Russia / LTCM 1998

Russia’s August 1998 default and devaluation blew up leveraged relative-value books, culminating in the LTCM rescue — a reminder that ‘hedged’ can mean ‘short liquidity in every state.’

Desk Slang · Foundations

Stuffed

Stuffed means a dealer or salesperson was left long (or short) inventory they did not want, usually after a client or a syndicate left paper on the desk.

Mathematics · Foundations

Variance

Variance is the expected squared deviation from the mean, Var(X) = E[(X − μ)²]. It is the second moment that becomes volatility after a square root and a convention.

AI Systems · Foundations

Word Embedding

A word embedding is a dense vector for a token such that geometry (distance, direction) reflects distributional meaning. It is the input layer of almost every neural NLP model.

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