Research

Quantitative Finance Research

Comprehensive Research Portfolio Across 6 Major Domains

"Institutional-grade research with formal mathematical derivations and production-validated implementations."

Aug 2024 - Present
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Research at Scale

Comprehensive quantitative research with academic rigor.

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Pages
Institutional documentation
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Chapters
Across 6 research domains
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Bates RMSE
Production option pricing accuracy
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Citations
NeurIPS, ICML, & Classic Fin.
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Equations
With formal mathematical proofs
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LaTeX Lines
Publication-ready source
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Research Speed
Multi-agent parallel synthesis
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Domains
ML, DL, MS, RL, Options, MM

Six Research Domains

Spanning market microstructure to reinforcement learning, with production-validated implementations.

ML Algorithms

350+ pages24 chapters

Core machine learning implementations for signal generation and predictive modeling, grounded in statistical learning theory.

Transfer LearningFeature EngineeringEnsemble Methods+1 more

Advanced Algorithms

280+ pages18 chapters

Cutting-edge architectures including Transformers and State Space Models applied to time-series forecasting.

Temporal Fusion TransformersPatchTSTN-BEATS+1 more

Market Structure

100+ pages12 chapters

Regime detection and volatility clustering analysis using MS-GARCH models for adaptive risk budgeting.

MS-GARCHRegime DetectionVolatility Clustering+1 more

RL Position Sizing

25+ pages8 chapters

Kelly-convergent SAC framework for optimal position sizing with curriculum learning.

Soft Actor-CriticKelly CriterionCurriculum Learning+5 more

Options Strategies

150+ pages7 chapters

RL-optimized options trading strategies with arbitrage detection and risk management.

Put-Call Parity ArbitrageFunding Rate ArbitrageVolatility Arbitrage+5 more

Market Making

210+ pages15 chapters

Inventory management and optimal quoting strategies derived from stochastic control theory.

Avellaneda-StoikovInventory RiskOrder Book Dynamics+1 more

Theoretical Foundations

Rigorous mathematical treatment with formal proofs and derivations.

Market Microstructure

  • Glosten-Milgrom Model - Adverse selection
  • Kyle Model - Strategic informed trading
  • Ho-Stoll - Inventory risk management
  • Avellaneda-Stoikov - Optimal market making

Options Pricing Models

  • Heston - Stochastic volatility
  • SABR - Smile calibration (10x faster)
  • Bates - Combined SV + jumps (1.8% RMSE)
  • Variance Gamma - Levy processes

Machine Learning

  • Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT)
  • PatchTST / iTransformer
  • CatBoost / NGBoost ensembles
  • Boruta feature selection

Reinforcement Learning

  • Soft Actor-Critic (SAC)
  • Kelly-convergent rewards
  • Curriculum learning
  • Deep hedging (30-42% cost reduction)

Validated Trading Strategies

Production-validated strategies with documented performance metrics.

Put-Call Parity Arbitrage

Annual Return28.5%
Sharpe Ratio1.82
Max Drawdown8.2%

Funding Rate Arbitrage

Annual Return42.3%
Sharpe Ratio1.45
Max Drawdown12.1%

Volatility Arbitrage

Annual Return18.7%
Sharpe Ratio1.28
Max Drawdown6.8%

Box Spread Arbitrage

Annual Return12.4%
Sharpe Ratio2.15
Max Drawdown3.8%

Research Highlights

Key methodologies and innovations from the research portfolio.

Market Microstructure Theory

Comprehensive coverage of traditional and DeFi market making, from Glosten-Milgrom to Uniswap v3.

  • Adverse selection and endogenous spreads
  • Strategic informed trading (Kyle model)
  • Avellaneda-Stoikov optimal market making
  • AMM design: CPMM, StableSwap, Balancer

Academic Rigor

Publication-quality research with extensive peer-reviewed sourcing.

Source Distribution

  • 40% Academic Papers (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
  • 30% Industry Research
  • 20% Practitioner Content
  • 10% Reference Books

Classic Foundations

  • Black-Scholes (1973)
  • Heston (1993)
  • Merton Jump-Diffusion (1976)
  • Kelly Criterion (1956)

Recent Research

  • 60% from 2024-2025
  • 25% from 2020-2023
  • Haarnoja et al. (2018) SAC
  • Lopez de Prado (2018)

Multi-Agent Research Methodology

Collaborative intelligence enabling 15-20x speedup in research synthesis.

4
Opus Agents
Per research document
15-20x
Speedup
Through parallelization
30-40h
Equivalent
Research per document
100%
Cross-Refs
Agent collaboration

Research Technology Stack

Tools and frameworks powering institutional-grade quantitative research.

LaTeX

40K+ lines of academic documentation

Documentation

Stochastic Calculus

HJB equations, Ito calculus

Mathematics

Options Models

Heston, SABR, Bates implementations

Quant

Deep Learning

Transformers, LSTM, TFT architectures

ML

Reinforcement Learning

SAC, DDPG, PPO algorithms

ML

Python 3.12

Production-ready implementations

Language

Market Microstructure

Kyle, Glosten-Milgrom models

Theory

Bayesian Methods

BNN, conformal prediction

ML

Quality Standards

Institutional-grade documentation with full mathematical rigor.

Full mathematical derivations
APA-style in-text citations
Cross-references between chapters
2022-2025 market validation
Production-ready implementations
Formal theorem proofs

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