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MLP-Initialized Reinforcement Learning for Exit Timing in SPX Short-Straddle Portfolios

Jianning Wang, Robert Ślepaczuk, Paweł Sakowski · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.13126 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

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Dieses Papier untersucht die Ausgangszeiten für SPX Short-Straddle-Portfolios mithilfe eines zweistufigen beaufsichtigten und verstärkten Lernrahmens. Historische Episoden erzeugen zuerst ex-post optimale Hold/Exit-Etiketten für das Training eines mehrschichtigen Perceptrons (MLP) mit nur gleichzeitig verfügbaren staatlichen Variablen bei der Implementierung. Das ausgebildete MLP initialisiert dann Verstärkungs-Learning-Akteure, die mit einer risikobewußten Handelsbelohnung gut abgestimmt sind. Eine Out-of-Sample-Bewertung über 2024-2026 zeigt, dass das beaufsichtigte MLP die passive Holding und repräsentative Fix-Time- und Profit-and-

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Abstract

This paper studies exit timing for SPX short-straddle portfolios using a two-stage supervised and reinforcement-learning framework. Historical episodes first generate ex-post optimal hold/exit labels for training a multilayer perceptron (MLP) using only contemporaneously available state variables at deployment. The trained MLP then initializes reinforcement-learning actors that are fine-tuned with a risk-aware trading reward. Out-of-sample evaluation over 2024-2026 shows that the supervised MLP substantially outperforms passive holding and representative fixed-time and profit-and-loss-based exit rules. Across seven independent seeds, MLP-initialized Actor-Critic averages 37.54% cumulative return and a Sharpe ratio of 1.705, compared with 35.01% and 1.651 for the supervised MLP. Actor-Critic trained from scratch averages only 0.18% return. These findings show that oracle-guided supervised learning provides a stable foundation for reward-based policy fine-tuning in a sparse and path-dependent option-exit problem.

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Topics: Sharpe ratio, Artificial intelligence, Computer science, Machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Supervised learning

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