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SNB researchers test LLM-based FX trading strategy

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Researchers from the Swiss National Bank have shown how a trading strategy that uses fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) to analyse sentiment in the foreign exchange market could outperform traditional language-based artificial intelligence methods.

The authors of the SNB working paper, Daniele Ballinari and Jessica Maly, suggest that by fine-tuning LLMs to better understand the jargon of FX

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