Quantum State Features and CatBoost for EURUSD Forecasting

Summary

The article proposes encoding EURUSD market features through an eight-qubit simulated quantum circuit, then using statistics from its measured state distribution as inputs to a CatBoost forecasting workflow. Returns, volatility, and RSI are normalized into rotation angles; rotation and entanglement gates produce a circuit state, which is sampled repeatedly. The author extracts entropy, the most probable state, the count of states above a probability threshold, and a variance measure. Caching repeated inputs is presented as a way to reduce simulation time.

The workflow also discusses handling cyclical time features and reports an out-of-sample backtest on EURUSD hourly candles, with stated accuracy in the low sixties. However, the excerpt provides no detailed validation design, benchmark comparison, or independent replication. Its claims that quantum states capture market uncertainty should therefore be treated as the author’s interpretation; the reported results alone do not establish a quantum advantage or durable profitability.

Key ideas

• The proposed workflow maps normalized market features to rotation angles in a simulated quantum circuit.
• Repeated circuit measurements form a probability distribution over possible states.
• The author derives entropy, dominant-state probability, significant-state count, and variance as model features.
• Caching is used to reduce the cost of repeated feature extraction.
• CatBoost is used for EURUSD hourly forecasting, but the reported performance lacks enough validation detail to establish robustness.

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