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Treating Trading Data As "Language"

On building frontier models for finance

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Matt Robinson
Jan 02, 2026
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Treating Limit Order Books as a “Language”

LLMs are prediction machines. They excel by forecasting the next token, typically, thought of as the next word.

But you can train the same transformer architecture on the weather, genes and financial transactions if you have a large enough dataset.

And there’s growing research that just as transformer-base…

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