Using conditional probability to identify trends in intra-day high-frequency equity pricing |
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Authors: | Michael Rechenthin W Nick Street |
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Institution: | The University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business, Iowa City, IA 52242-1000, United States |
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Abstract: | By examining the conditional probabilities of price movements in a popular US stock over different high-frequency intra-day timespans, varying levels of trend predictability are identified. This study demonstrates the existence of predictable short-term trends in the market; understanding the probability of price movement can be useful to high-frequency traders. Price movement was examined in trade-by-trade (tick) data along with temporal timespans between 1 s to 30 min for 52 one-week periods for one highly-traded stock. We hypothesize that much of the initial predictability of trade-by-trade (tick) data is due to traditional market dynamics, or the bouncing of the price between the stock’s bid and ask. Only after timespans of between 5 to 10 s does this cease to explain the predictability; after this timespan, two consecutive movements in the same direction occur with higher probability than that of movements in the opposite direction. This pattern holds up to a one-minute interval, after which the strength of the pattern weakens. |
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Keywords: | Conditional probability Stock prediction Intra-day trading High-frequency trading |
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