FCOC: A Fractal-Chaotic Co-driven Framework for Financial Volatility Forecasting

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Highly relevant for quantitative trading as volatility forecasting is fundamental to risk management, position sizing, option pricing, and portfolio allocation. The framework's demonstrated improvement in risk-sensitive metrics (QLIKE, MSE) directly benefits trading strategies that depend on accurate volatility estimates. The ability to resolve the 'Transformer Paradox' and enhance Mamba performance makes it practical for modern quant workflows. However, the proprietary data source and lack of open-source implementation reduce immediate practical applicability.

The framework involves multiple complex components: OSW-MF-ADCCA with overlapping segmentation and asymmetric trend discrimination, 10 parameterized Lee oscillators with retrograde signaling, Max-over-Time pooling, and Maximum Response Selection. Integration into existing architectures (LSTM, GRU, Mamba, Transformer) requires replacing activation functions throughout the network. The rolling window feature generation adds preprocessing complexity. However, the algorithms are well-documented with pseudocode (Algorithms 1 and 2) and parameter tables.

The paper provides detailed algorithmic descriptions (Algorithm 1 and 2), parameter settings for all 10 oscillator types (Table 1), and specifies the experimental setup (Python 3.10, PyTorch 2.0, CUDA 11.8, NVIDIA RTX 3060). However, no GitHub repository is mentioned, and the data source (Wind Economics Database) is proprietary and requires a license. The OSW-MF-ADCCA implementation details are thorough but the COC parameter exploration methodology could be more transparent.