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LLMs in Quant Finance: Leveraging Smarter Strategies and Market Edge

Ever feel like the financial markets are moving faster than you can keep up? You’re not alone. The sheer volume of data — news, reports, social media — can leave even the sharpest quants overwhelmed. But guess what? There’s a game-changer in town: Large Language Models (LLMs). Yes, the same models that can hold conversations and write essays are now shaking up quant finance. These models are doing more than just analysing text — they’re unlocking smarter strategies and giving traders a market edge.

Quant Club,IIT kharagpurMarch 2, 202512 min read

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Quantitative StrategiesOptions Trading

LSMC with Signatures: The Hectic Spectacle of Pricing American Options

Quant Club,IIT kharagpurNovember 25, 202513 min read
Quantitative FinanceAlgorithmic Trading

Cracking the Problem: Why RL is the Ultimate Trader

what if you could teach a machine to trade? Not by just throwing in a dusty rulebook, but by allowing it to learn as it gathers experience, in a way an ordinary human would. Enter Reinforcement Learning (RL), the same tech that powers AI that can beat grandmasters at Go and master video games. Now, it’s putting on a pinstripe suit and heading to Wall Street.

Quant Club,IIT kharagpurDecember 19, 202516 min read
Quantitative FinanceTime Series Analysis

Financial Fireflies: Bio-inspired volatility modelling

Can nature teach us how to model financial markets? In this blog, we dive into how bio inspired algorithms can help us to tune time series models. We will explore why they matter and how they might be very relevant in this context, how they work, what problems they solve and how we used one of them-the Firefly Algorithm by Xin-She Yang, to estimate a GARCH-type volatility model.

Quant Club,IIT kharagpurDecember 28, 20259 min read
Heston LSV CALIBRATION
Heston-LsvOption Price

Heston LSV CALIBRATION

Options price Modeling is an exclusive skills of estimating the prices as well as volatility apart from just crunching numbers for giving the much accurate signals for the traded option under consideration.Modern day quant companies weights options as their knight among their instruments , where a good upper hand(better estimates) can 2x their profits.

Soham AgarwalOctober 12, 20258
Quantitative FinanceDeep Learning

Implicit Layers and Deep Equilibrium Models

What if a neural-network layer didn't follow a set of instructions you decide to give it, but found the answer on its own? Exploring implicit layers, DEQs, and their applications in quant finance.

Quant Club, IIT KharagpurJanuary 31, 202611 min read
Portfolio TheoryRisk

Understanding Alpha & Beta in Portfolio Theory

A deep dive into how alpha and beta measure risk-adjusted returns and systematic risk in quantitative finance.

Quant Club IIT KGPMarch 17, 20266 min read
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