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Quant Crucible
Quant Crucible

Fear makes people sell at any price. We show the patient buyer on the other side gets paid most when fear peaks, and we report every test we ran, including the ones that failed.

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Jyothi Nandhan Repaka Ajitesh Reddy Byreddy Manikanta Srinivas Penumarthi Akashchalla Challa
3 0
Spin vs. Substance
Spin vs. Substance

We use Gemini to read biotech trial press releases against the endpoint each company registered beforehand, and trade the gap between spin and substance.

Winner Winner
Jackson Bailey Jade L'Heureux
2 0
BackFill
BackFill

Backfill turns FDA drug shortages into trading signals by identifying publicly listed competitors positioned to fill the supply gaps left by disrupted manufacturers.

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Aaditya Gajula Satyabrata Das Aaryan Gajula Atina Ruvinova
2 0
CloseWatch
CloseWatch

The closing push is real, but it's a cost, not a profit; so, we built a tool to warn funds before they pay it.

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HitikaGhanani Ghanani P Shesadree Maitrey Phatak Sibi Seenivasan
6 2
Pricing the Buildout
Pricing the Buildout

Pricing the Buildout tests whether infrastructure-company disclosures contain equity signals—and whether they survive point-in-time controls, transaction costs, and risk analysis.

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Sebastian Bernal-Orta Vishnu Araveeti Aidan Quach Lucy Liu
1 0
PRISM
PRISM

PRISM (Price Reaction & Impulse Signal Model) is a cryptocurrency trading strategy designed to capture price continuation after unusual market movements with four-hour time resolution.

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Kush Palem Nandu Praveen Diya Dipu Nair
0 0
Reading the fine print
Reading the fine print

An LLM reads every pharma 8-K the minute it's filed and trades the stock against XPH. Out of sample it returned +61% with Sharpe 2.1 and almost no market beta.

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Noah Hassan David Portilla Jeffrey Cui Aiden Karo
3 0
PolyBridge
PolyBridge

Option prices forecast Polymarket stock contracts 11% more accurately than Polymarket. PolyBridge measures the gap and trades only signals that pass tests written in advance.

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Jacob Crainic theomachado05
0 0
A MultiPlanetary Exchange System
A MultiPlanetary Exchange System

An exchange that works across light-minute delay. Every asset sits on one home ledger, deals lock then commit, and price contracts settle on a signed print, so no balance is ever lost or double-spent.

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MiguelCarrasco-png Carrasco Tony Pham
0 0
A Safe and Reliable MultiPlanetary Exchange System
A Safe and Reliable MultiPlanetary Exchange System

We present a prefunded design for trading equities and a capped futures contract across the nine settlements of the MultiPlanetary Exchange System.

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Logan Mesh Kainoa Mauch Harrison Mesh Jonathan Gleiber
4 0
Low Taper Fade
Low Taper Fade

We tested if investors overpay for puts after surprise leadership 8-Ks. Pre-registered, net of costs, on 2024–26 data: selling puts after fresh filings did worse than ordinary days.

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Luis Andre Blanco Jovon Alexis jack harris
0 0
DTC_hardware
DTC_hardware

Optimized FPGA Calculations to BRAM

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Dustin Nguyen Cole Hawkins Tyler Le
3 0
whale_watching
whale_watching

we r whale watchers & we luuuv mispricing & we luuuuv small-cap biotechs

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Sandilya Kambhampati Lalit Boyapati Nathan Li Gavin Payne
0 0
Cattle Crushers
Cattle Crushers

We tested cattle economics as a trading signal in futures and stocks. Both strategies failed registered tests, producing an auditable study of net performance, execution risk, and funding constraints.

Aman_Vyas Vyas Zhicheng Li Nicolas Slenko
0 0
8K backtest
8K backtest

Data-is-all-you-need!

Alan Xi
0 0
Tickweave
Tickweave

A trading bot on a tiny FPGA. It reads two prices over serial, tracks a moving average for each, and says BUY or SELL. Written in OCaml and squeezed into 195 logic cells.

Bohdan Purtell Srijan Kumbam vishal-naveen shmoe9806 Kafley
1 0
Debt Issuance and Option Repricing
Debt Issuance and Option Repricing

We use Massive’s corporate disclosures to test when selling calls or buying puts adds value. HiPerGator runs the backtests; early results remain inconclusive.

Oscar Rodriguez Vidhan Chirag Prajapati Gabriel Storino ArlanSuleymanov
0 0
Genetic Feature Selection for XGBoost on E-mini S&P 500
Genetic Feature Selection for XGBoost on E-mini S&P 500

A GPU genetic algorithm evolves which order-book signals XGBoost uses to predict whether bursts of aggressive trading in S&P 500 futures will snap back, net of trading costs.

Benjamin Friedman ED1AZ Diaz-Silva Manny Osorio
0 0
Where's My Bitcoin?
Where's My Bitcoin?

The crypto space is no stranger to hacks. We tested if stolen funds fleeing into Monero move its price. Pre-registered, out-of-sample, net of costs. Verdict: the thieves launder, the market shrugs.

Santiago Otoya Camilo Nunez
1 0
Pricing the Print
Pricing the Print

Can prediction markets tell you when to sell CPI-day options? We pre-registered the test on Solana, ran it on 50 releases, and found they can't: the premium looks like fair pay for tail risk.

shmoney2 Agarwal Abdulla Toleugazin Sophia McCoy NickArust Arustamyan
1 0
GQH_Hardware_Stark-Silicon
GQH_Hardware_Stark-Silicon

This project implements a highly optimized, hardware-accelerated 16-sample moving-average trading algorithm for the Gator Quant Hacks Hardware Track.

Tanmay Bansal Jordan Serna
0 0
MORTIMER
MORTIMER

MORTIMER is a six-asset equal-risk-contribution (ERC) strategy that dynamically scales exposure to forecast volatility, delivering systematic downside-risk mitigation with low return drag after costs.

Miles Rack Nelson Alvarez Amir Hajomar Sean MAJEWSKI
0 0
Cross Asset Trend Following/Climate Informed Risk Management
Cross Asset Trend Following/Climate Informed Risk Management

We’re testing whether combining price trends, portfolio risk controls, and climate information can improve futures trading—and whether ENSO adds value beyond momentum alone.

Leonardo Martinez-Bayer Eric Lee
0 0
Old News, New News: Pricing Late 8-K Filings in Options
Old News, New News: Pricing Late 8-K Filings in Options

Late executive 8-Ks, old news vs. surprise: a test of whether options overprice yesterday's news, committed before the data.

Sarah Spellman Lalitha Kantam Chelsea Zhao Shayaan Nesargi
0 0

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