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Sent 30 October 2026 · 29 new papers

Quant Paper Radar · 17 of 29

  1. 1

    Sparse Autoencoders as Implicit Diversification Regularisers for Cross-Sectional Cryptocurrency Returns

    we backtested it — Sharpe 0.26 · quant relevance 0.98

    Sparse-autoencoder reconstructions produce contrarian portfolios with lower measured volatility than matched-dimension PCA, but do not establish superior risk-adjusted returns or stable factor identities. The return-based method is implementable on the secondary US-equity market, although a practical test must replace the study's explicitly non-executable same-close entries with subsequent-price execution.

    original paper

  2. 2

    Measuring Longer-Horizon Leveraged ETF Performance

    we backtested it — Sharpe 0.65 · quant relevance 0.95

    The study explains leveraged ETF compounding through convexity, volatility drag, and costs, and advocates realized terminal wealth and expected log growth over compounded arithmetic averages. Its framework directly supports leverage selection and investment-performance evaluation using available daily ETF prices, although it does not establish a predictive trading signal.

    original paper

  3. 3

    Portfolio selection and the maximum principle approach in Itô-Liu financial markets

    we backtested it — Sharpe 0.64 · quant relevance 0.94

    The study derives an optimal portfolio allocation under logarithmic utility in an Itô-Liu market, recovering the Merton excess-drift-over-variance rule. A daily implementation is backtestable, but it would test the allocation rule rather than validate the continuous-time uncertainty framework. The supplied material describes theoretical results and numerical examples, not measured trading performance.

    original paper

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