WWW ‘21: The Web Conference 2021
REST: Relational Event-Driven Stock Trend Forecasting
REST, an event-driven stock trend forecasting framework, that overcomes two limitations of existing event-driven models. Models the stock context, and learns the effect of event information on the stocks under different contexts. Constructs a stock graph and designs a new propagation layer to propagate the effect of event information from related stocks. #stock-trend-forecasting #computational-finance
Exploring the Scale-Free Nature of Stock Markets
Most existing neural methods treat stocks as independent of each other. However, financial literature shows stock markets and inter-stock correlations show scale-free network characteristics. The authors modeled the scale-free nature of inter-stock relations through temporal hyperbolic graph learning on Riemannian manifolds that can represent the spatial correlations between stocks more accurately. Stock selection then became a learning to rank problem, and the authors outperformed current forecasters. #graph-based-learning #hyperbolic-learning
The phrase “inter-stock relations through temporal hyperbolic graph learning on Riemann manifolds” is quite the mouthful. The key here seems to be, “How do we model a group of items whose relational distances vary over time?”
Hyperbolic learning is a shift from the more traditional learning that occurs in Euclidean spaces. Hyperbolic space is apt for tree data, while spherical space is apt for cyclic data. AFAICT, Riemannian manifolds are topological structures that are convenient when working with hyperbolic space. also mentions “Riemannian metric”.
is a bit dense. Digging deeper is not worth it as I don’t have a problem to solve/relate my learnings to. Maybe knowing that they exist is enough for now.
Detecting and Quantifying Wash Trading on Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges
show how to identify wash trading activity in IDEX and EtherDelta, two popular decentralized exchanges on the Ethereum blockchain. They identified a lower bound accounts and trading structures engaged in wash trading. Found that 30% of all traded tokens haven been subject to wash trading at some point, with an emphasis on EtherDelta where 10% of tokens have almost exclusively been wash traded. #cryptocurrencies #financial-crime
Towards Understanding and Demystifying Bitcoin Mixing Services
aim to understand Bitcoin mixing services as they have been used to facilitate criminal activities. Swapping and obfuscating are the most popular mixing strategies. The authors propose a transaction based analysis that successfully reveal the mixing mechanisms for 4 representative mixers. They further propose a method that identifies 92% of the mixing transactions that used obfuscation.
Towards Understanding Cryptocurrency Derivatives
Crypto trading has evolved from a collection of spot markets (fiar for cryptocurrency) to a hybrid ecosystem features complex and popular derivatives. BitMEX is a market leader with +3B USD of volume per day, and allow users up to 100x leverage. Authors analyzed the evolution of BitMEX, the diverse ensemble of amateur and professional traders, and how it has led to dramatic price movements in the underlying spot markets.
References
- REST: Relational Event-Driven Stock Trend Forecasting. Xu, Wentao; Liu, Weiqing; Xu, Chang; Bian, Jiang; Yin, Jian; Liu, Tie-Yan. The Web Conference, 2021. . 2021. doi.org ISBN: 9781450383127 .
- Exploring the Scale-Free Nature of Stock Markets: Hyperbolic Graph Learning for Algorithmic Trading. Sawhney, Ramit; Agarwal, Shivam; Wadhwa, Arnav; Shah, Rajiv. The Web Conference, 2021. . 2021. doi.org ISBN: 9781450383127 .
- Detecting and Quantifying Wash Trading on Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges. Victor, Friedhelm; Weintraud, Andrea Marie. The Web Conference, 2021. . 2021. doi.org ISBN: 9781450383127 .
- Towards Understanding and Demystifying Bitcoin Mixing Services. Wu, Lei; Hu, Yufeng; Zhou, Yajin; Wang, Haoyu; Luo, Xiapu; Wang, Zhi; Zhang, Fan; Ren, Kui. The Web Conference, 2021. . 2021. doi.org ISBN: 9781450383127 .
- Towards Understanding Cryptocurrency Derivatives: A Case Study of BitMEX. Soska, Kyle; Dong, Jin-Dong; Khodaverdian, Alex; Zetlin-Jones, Ariel; Routledge, Bryan; Christin, Nicolas. The Web Conference, 2021. . Apr 19, 2021. doi.org ISBN: 9781450383127 .
The value of stock trend forecasting is not unanimous, e.g. Malkiel contends that forecasting is a fool’s game , while Simon’s RenTech is all about the math . But it seems like the question is an empirical one, and therefore, a good answer should exist. Why are there opposing camps?