Title
High frequency trading strategies, market fragility and price spikes: an agent based model perspective
Abstract
Given recent requirements for ensuring the robustness of algorithmic trading strategies laid out in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, this paper proposes a novel agent-based simulation for exploring algorithmic trading strategies. Five different types of agents are present in the market. The statistical properties of the simulated market are compared with equity market depth data from the Chi-X exchange and found to be significantly similar. The model is able to reproduce a number of stylised market properties including: clustered volatility, autocorrelation of returns, long memory in order flow, concave price impact and the presence of extreme price events. The results are found to be insensitive to reasonable parameter variations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10479-018-3019-4
Annals of Operations Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Agent-based model, MIFiD II, Limit order book, Stylised facts, Algorithmic trading
Econometrics,Mathematical optimization,Agent-based model,High-frequency trading,Fragility,Financial instrument,Market depth,Equity (finance),Volatility (finance),Mathematics,Algorithmic trading
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
282.0
SP1-2
1572-9338
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Mcgroarty1355.98
Ash Booth2191.18
Enrico H. Gerding375977.42
V. L. Raju Chinthalapati421.42