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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in agentic frameworks, in which prompts trigger complex tool-based analysis in pursuit of a goal. While these frameworks have shown promise across multiple domains including in finance,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-14 Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos , Ollie Olby , Justin Lyon , Namid R. Stillman

Stock exchanges are considered major players in financial sectors of many countries. Most Stockbrokers, who execute stock trade, use technical, fundamental or time series analysis in trying to predict stock prices, so as to advise clients.…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-02-24 B. W. Wanjawa , L. Muchemi

We introduce a framework to study the effective objectives at different time scales of financial market microstructure. The financial market can be regarded as a complex adaptive system, where purposeful agents collectively and…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2017-12-05 Dieter Hendricks , Adam Cobb , Richard Everett , Jonathan Downing , Stephen J. Roberts

We report on a technique based on multi-agent games which has potential use in the prediction of future movements of financial time-series. A third-party game is trained on a black-box time-series, and is then run into the future to extract…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 N. F. Johnson , D. Lamper , P. Jefferies , M. L. Hart , S. Howison

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the generation of virtual scenarios of multivariate financial data of arbitrary length and composition of assets. With this approach, decades of realistic time-synchronized data can be simulated…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-02-07 Javier Franco-Pedroso , Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez , Jorge Cubero , Maria Planas , Rafael Cobo , Fernando Pablos

We investigate the mechanisms behind the power-law distribution of stock returns using artificial market simulations. While traditional financial theory assumes Gaussian price fluctuations, empirical studies consistently show that the tails…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-15 Ryuji Hashimoto , Kiyoshi Izumi

The paper presents an advanced version of an adaptive market-making agent capable of performing experiential learning, exploiting a "try and fail" approach relying on a swarm of subordinate agents executed in a virtual environment to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Anton Kolonin , Alexey Glushchenko , Arseniy Fokin , Marcello Mari , Mario Casiraghi , Mukul Vishwas

In this work we show how generative tools, which were successfully applied to limit order book data, can be utilized for the task of imitating trading agents. To this end, we propose a modified generative architecture based on the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-03 Mateusz Wilinski , Juho Kanniainen

We show how a multi-agent simulator can support two important but distinct methods for assessing a trading strategy: Market Replay and Interactive Agent-Based Simulation (IABS). Our solution is important because each method offers strengths…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2019-07-01 Tucker Hybinette Balch , Mahmoud Mahfouz , Joshua Lockhart , Maria Hybinette , David Byrd

This research investigates liquidity dynamics in fractional ownership markets, focusing on illiquid alternative investments traded on a FinTech platform. By leveraging empirical data and employing agent-based modeling (ABM), the study…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-05 Lars Fluri , A. Ege Yilmaz , Denis Bieri , Thomas Ankenbrand , Aurelio Perucca

This paper presents a new financial market simulator that may be used as a tool in both industry and academia for research in market microstructure. It allows multiple automated traders and/or researchers to simultaneously connect to an…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-08-31 Thiago W. Alves , Ionut Florescu , George Calhoun , Dragos Bozdog

This study presents an agent-based computational cross-market model for Chinese equity market structure, which includes both stocks and CSI 300 index futures. In this model, we design several stocks and one index futures to simulate this…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2014-04-17 Hai-Chuan Xu , Wei Zhang , Xiong Xiong , Wei-Xing Zhou

Recent studies have shown that online portfolio selection strategies that exploit the mean reversion property can achieve excess return from equity markets. This paper empirically investigates the performance of state-of-the-art mean…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-11 Seung-Hyun Moon , Yong-Hyuk Kim , Byung-Ro Moon

The Artificial Prediction Market is a recent machine learning technique for multi-class classification, inspired from the financial markets. It involves a number of trained market participants that bet on the possible outcomes and are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-18 Nathan Lay , Adrian Barbu

A new model for stocks markets using integer values for each stock price is presented. In contrast with previously reported models, the variables used in the model are not of binary type, but of more general integer type. It is shown how…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan R. Sanchez

In this study, we developed a computational framework for simulating large-scale agent-based financial markets. Our platform supports trading multiple simultaneous assets and leverages distributed computing to scale the number and…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-02-01 Aaron Wheeler , Jeffrey D. Varner

Derivative hedging and pricing are important and continuously studied topics in financial markets. Recently, deep hedging has been proposed as a promising approach that uses deep learning to approximate the optimal hedging strategy and can…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-16 Masanori Hirano

This paper provides a unique approach with AI algorithms to predict emerging stock markets volatility. Traditionally, stock volatility is derived from historical volatility,Monte Carlo simulation and implied volatility as well. In this…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-27 Zong Ke , Jingyu Xu , Zizhou Zhang , Yu Cheng , Wenjun Wu

Can AI Agents simulate real-world trading environments to investigate the impact of external factors on stock trading activities (e.g., macroeconomics, policy changes, company fundamentals, and global events)? These factors, which…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-09-24 Chong Zhang , Xinyi Liu , Zhongmou Zhang , Mingyu Jin , Lingyao Li , Zhenting Wang , Wenyue Hua , Dong Shu , Suiyuan Zhu , Xiaobo Jin , Sujian Li , Mengnan Du , Yongfeng Zhang

We propose the use of Agent Based Models (ABMs) inside a reinforcement learning framework in order to better understand the relationship between automated decision making tools, fairness-inspired statistical constraints, and the social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Efrén Cruz Cortés , Debashis Ghosh