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20122025
most citedThe Reactive Volatility Model

5 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

q-fin.PM2025

Breaking the Trend: How to Avoid Cherry-Picked Signals

Sebastien Valeyre

Our empirical results show an impressive fit with the theoretical Sharpe formula of a trend-following strategy depending on the parameter of the signal, which was derived by by Gre…

q-fin.PM2024

LLMs for Time Series: an Application for Single Stocks and Statistical Arbitrage

Sebastien Valeyre, Sofiane Aboura

Recently, LLMs (Large Language Models) have been adapted for time series prediction with significant success in pattern recognition. However, the common belief is that these models…

q-fin.PM2022

Optimal trend following portfolios

Sebastien Valeyre

This paper derives an optimal portfolio that is based on trend-following signal. Building on an earlier related article, it provides a unifying theoretical setting to introduce an…

q-fin.PM2020

Refined model of the covariance/correlation matrix between securities

Sebastien Valeyre

A new methodology has been introduced to clean the correlation matrix of single stocks returns based on a constrained principal component analysis using financial data. Portfolios…

q-fin.RM2019

The Reactive Beta Model

Sebastien Valeyre, Denis S. Grebenkov, Sofiane Aboura

We present a reactive beta model that includes the leverage effect to allow hedge fund managers to target a near-zero beta for market neutral strategies. For this purpose, we deriv…

q-fin.TR2018★ 3 cited

Emergence of correlations between securities at short time scales

S. Valeyre, D. S. Grebenkov, S. Aboura

The correlation matrix is the key element in optimal portfolio allocation and risk management. In particular, the eigenvectors of the correlation matrix corresponding to large eige…

q-fin.GN2016

Should employers pay their employees better? An asset pricing approach

Sebastien Valeyre, Denis Grebenkov, Sofiane Aboura +1

We uncover a new anomaly in asset pricing that is linked to the remuneration: the more a company spends on salaries and benefits per employee, the better its stock performs, on ave…

q-fin.ST2012★ 5 cited

The Reactive Volatility Model

Sebastien Valeyre, Denis Grebenkov, Sofiane Aboura +1

We present a new volatility model, simple to implement, that includes a leverage effect whose return-volatility correlation function fits to empirical observations. This model is a…