arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2019
Systemic liquidity risk, defined by the IMF as "the risk of simultaneous liquidity difficulties at multiple financial institutions", is a key topic in macroprudential policy and financial stress analysis. Specialized models to simulate funding liquidity risk and contagion are available but they require not only banks' bilateral exposures data but also balance sheet data with sufficient granularity, which are hardly a…
V. Macchiati, G. Brandi, G. Cimini, G. Caldarelli, D. Paolotti
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2013
The basic financial purpose of an enterprise is maximization of its value. Trade credit management should also contribute to realization of this fundamental aim. Many of the current asset management models that are found in financial management literature assume book profit maximization as the basic financial purpose. These book profitbased models could be lacking in what relates to another aim (i.e., maximization of…
Grzegorz Michalski
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2010
Credit networks represent a way of modeling trust between entities in a network. Nodes in the network print their own currency and trust each other for a certain amount of each other's currency. This allows the network to serve as a decentralized payment infrastructure---arbitrary payments can be routed through the network by passing IOUs between trusting nodes in their respective currencies---and obviates the need f…
Pranav Dandekar, Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan, Ian Post
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2017
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 frameworks were based on mean-variance minimization for the trading costs. In the past 15 years, finer mo…
Charles-Albert Lehalle, Eyal Neuman
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2026
This study aims to determine whether the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) as a specialized execution overlay can enhance pair trading in highly volatile cryptocurrency markets. Although classical implementations of the strategy have proven successful in traditional equities, they frequently exhibit rigidity and suffer from severe divergence risks when applied to high-variance environments. To address …
Damian Lebiedź, Robert Ślepaczuk
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2025
We investigate portfolio optimization in financial markets from a trading and risk management perspective. We term this task Risk-Aware Trading Portfolio Optimization (RATPO), formulate the corresponding optimization problem, and propose an efficient Risk-Aware Trading Swarm (RATS) algorithm to solve it. The key elements of RATPO are a generic initial portfolio P, a specific set of Unique Eligible Instruments (UEIs),…
Marco Bianchetti, Gabriele D'Acunto, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yuko Kuroki, Marco Scaringi
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2025
Financial markets are inherently non-stationary, with shifting volatility regimes that alter asset co-movements and return distributions. Standard portfolio optimization methods, typically built on stationarity or regime-agnostic assumptions, struggle to adapt to such changes. To address these challenges, we propose RegimeFolio, a novel regime-aware and sector-specialized framework that, unlike existing regime-agnost…
Yiyao Zhang, Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad, Claudia Szabo
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2024
This paper presents comparison results and establishes risk bounds for credit portfolios within classes of Bernoulli mixture models, assuming conditionally independent defaults that are stochastically increasing with a common risk factor. We provide simple and interpretable conditions for conditional default probabilities that imply a comparison of credit portfolio losses in convex order. In the case of threshold mod…
Jonathan Ansari, Eva Lütkebohmert
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2024
Significant progress has been made in automated problem-solving using societies of agents powered by large language models (LLMs). In finance, efforts have largely focused on single-agent systems handling specific tasks or multi-agent frameworks independently gathering data. However, the multi-agent systems' potential to replicate real-world trading firms' collaborative dynamics remains underexplored. TradingAgents p…
Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Di Luo, Wei Wang
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2019
We consider a structural stochastic volatility model for the loss from a large portfolio of credit risky assets. Both the asset value and the volatility processes are correlated through systemic Brownian motions, with default determined by the asset value reaching a lower boundary. We prove that if our volatility models are picked from a class of mean-reverting diffusions, the system converges as the portfolio become…
Ben Hambly, Nikolaos Kolliopoulos
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2019
Technological progress is leading to proliferation and diversification of trading venues, thus increasing the relevance of the long-standing question of market fragmentation versus consolidation. To address this issue quantitatively, we analyse systems of adaptive traders that choose where to trade based on their previous experience. We demonstrate that only based on aggregate parameters about trading venues, such as…
Aleksandra Alorić, Peter Sollich
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2019
We derive an explicit solution for deterministic market impact parameters in the Graewe and Horst (2017) portfolio liquidation model. The model allows to combine various forms of market impact, namely instantaneous, permanent and temporary. We show that the solutions to the two benchmark models of Almgren and Chris (2001) and of Obizhaeva and Wang (2013) are obtained as special cases. We relate the different forms of…
Ying Chen, Ulrich Horst, Hoang Hai Tran
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2018
We study optimal trading in an Almgren-Chriss model with running and terminal inventory costs and general predictive signals about price changes. As a special case, this allows to treat optimal liquidation in "target zone models": asset prices with a reflecting boundary enforced by regulatory interventions. In this case, the optimal liquidation rate is the "theta" of a lookback option, leading to explicit formulas fo…
Christoph Belak, Johannes Muhle-Karbe, Kevin Ou
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2015
This paper investigates the equilibrium interactions between trading targets and private information in a multi-period Kyle (1985) market. There are two investors who each follow dynamic trading strategies: A strategic portfolio rebalancer who engages in order splitting to reach a cumulative trading target and an unconstrained strategic insider who trades on long-lived information. We consider cases in which the cons…
Jin Hyuk Choi, Kasper Larsen, Duane J. Seppi
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2012
This paper examines the role of algorithmic trading in modern financial markets. Additionally, order types, characteristics, and special features of algorithmic trading are described under the lens provided by the large development of high frequency trading technology. Special order types are examined together with an intuitive description of the implied dynamics of the order book conditional to special orders (icebe…
Riccardo Cesari, Massimiliano Marzo, Paolo Zagaglia
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2011
We use statistically validated networks, a recently introduced method to validate links in a bipartite system, to identify clusters of investors trading in a financial market. Specifically, we investigate a special database allowing to track the trading activity of individual investors of the stock Nokia. We find that many statistically detected clusters of investors show a very high degree of synchronization in the …
Michele Tumminello, Fabrizio Lillo, Jyrki Piilo, Rosario N. Mantegna
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2007
The understanding of complex social or economic systems is an important scientific challenge. Here we present a comprehensive study of the Spanish Stock Exchange showing that most financial firms trading in that market are characterized by a resulting strategy and can be classified in groups of firms with different specialization. Few large firms overally act as trending firms whereas many heterogeneous firm act as r…
Fabrizio Lillo, Esteban Moro, Gabriella Vaglica, Rosario N. Mantegna
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2005
We analyze an ideal gas like model of a trading market with quenched random saving factors for its agents and show that the steady state income ($m$) distribution $P(m)$ in the model has a power law tail with Pareto index $ν$ exactly equal to unity, confirming the earlier numerical studies on this model. The analysis starts with the development of a master equation for the time development of $P(m)$. Precise solution…
Arnab Chatterjee, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Robin B. Stinchcombe