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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

Producing accurate software models is crucial in model-driven software engineering (MDE). However, modeling complex systems is an error-prone task that requires deep application domain knowledge. In the past decade, several automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Vittoriano Muttillo , Claudio Di Sipio , Riccardo Rubei , Luca Berardinelli , MohammadHadi Dehghani

The introduction of electronic trading platforms effectively changed the organisation of traditional systemic trading from quote-driven markets into order-driven markets. Its convenience led to an exponentially increasing amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yanqing Ma , Carmine Ventre , Maria Polukarov

This work presents a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) designed for modeling financial time series. The GPT functions as an order generation engine within a discrete event simulator, enabling realistic replication of limit order book…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-26 Aaron Wheeler , Jeffrey D. Varner

LLMs have demonstrated significant potential in quantitative finance by processing vast unstructured data to emulate human-like analytical workflows. However, current LLM-based methods primarily follow either an Asset-Centric paradigm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Taian Guo , Haiyang Shen , Junyu Luo , Zhongshi Xing , Hanchun Lian , Jinsheng Huang , Binqi Chen , Luchen Liu , Yun Ma , Ming Zhang

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…

This paper describes the design, implementation, and successful use of the Bristol Stock Exchange (BSE), a novel minimal simulation of a centralised financial market, based on a Limit Order Book (LOB) such as is common in major stock…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Dave Cliff

We introduce a prototype model in an attempt to capture some aspects of market dynamics simulating a trading mechanism. The model description starts with a discrete-space, continuous-time Markov process describing arrival and movement of…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-04 N. Vvedenskaya , Y. Suhov , V. Belitsky

Modeling large-scale time series has gained significant attention in recent years. However, its direct application in finance remains challenging due to substantial differences in data characteristics across domains. Specifically, financial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yuanjian Xu , Anxian Liu , Jianing Hao , Zhenzhuo Li , Shichang Meng , Guang Zhang

Optimal order execution is widely studied by industry practitioners and academic researchers because it determines the profitability of investment decisions and high-level trading strategies, particularly those involving large volumes of…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-15 Michaël Karpe , Jin Fang , Zhongyao Ma , Chen Wang

We build a profitable electronic trading agent with Reinforcement Learning that places buy and sell orders in the stock market. An environment model is built only with historical observational data, and the RL agent learns the trading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haoran Wei , Yuanbo Wang , Lidia Mangu , Keith Decker

Market by order (MBO) data - a detailed feed of individual trade instructions for a given stock on an exchange - is arguably one of the most granular sources of microstructure information. While limit order books (LOBs) are implicitly…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-28 Zihao Zhang , Bryan Lim , Stefan Zohren

Despite its practical significance, generating realistic synthetic financial time series is challenging due to statistical properties known as stylized facts, such as fat tails, volatility clustering, and seasonality patterns. Various…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-25 Tomonori Takahashi , Takayuki Mizuno

This paper proposes DeepRule, an integrated framework for automated business rule generation in retail assortment and pricing optimization. Addressing the systematic misalignment between existing theoretical models and real-world economic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yusen Wu , Xiaotie Deng

Dynamic portfolio optimization is the process of sequentially allocating wealth to a collection of assets in some consecutive trading periods, based on investors' return-risk profile. Automating this process with machine learning remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pengqian Yu , Joon Sern Lee , Ilya Kulyatin , Zekun Shi , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Deep generative models can help with data scarcity and privacy by producing synthetic training data, but they struggle in low-data, imbalanced tabular settings to fully learn the complex data distribution. We argue that striving for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-12 Xiaofeng Lin , Seungbae Kim , Zhuoya Li , Zachary DeSoto , Charles Fleming , Guang Cheng

Traditional economic models often rely on fixed assumptions about market dynamics, limiting their ability to capture the complexities and stochastic nature of real-world scenarios. However, reality is more complex and includes noise, making…

Constructing valid and informative conformal prediction regions for multi-dimensional outputs remains a fundamental challenge. While conformal prediction provides finite-sample, distribution-free coverage guarantees, its practical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Zhenhan Fang , Aixin Tan , Jian Huang

This paper introduces a jump-diffusion pricing model specifically designed for algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading (HFT). The model incorporates independent jump and diffusion processes, providing a more precise representation of…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-05 Luca Lalor , Anatoliy Swishchuk

Diffusion-based models have significant achievements in time series generation but suffer from inefficient computation: solving high-dimensional ODEs/SDEs via iterative numerical solvers demands hundreds to thousands of drift function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yang Hu , Xiao Wang , Zezhen Ding , Lirong Wu , Huatian Zhang , Stan Z. Li , Sheng Wang , Jiheng Zhang , Ziyun Li , Tianlong Chen