Rare Events Analysis of High-Frequency Equity Data

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Dragos Bozdog

Stevens Institute of Technology

Ionut Florescu

Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business

Khaldoun Khashanah

Stevens Institute of Technology

Jim Wang

Stevens Institute of Technology

Date Written: July 1, 2011

Abstract

In this work we present a methodology to detect rare events which are defined as large price movements relative to the volume traded. We analyze the behavior of equity after the detection of these rare events. We provide methods to calibrate trading rules based on the detection of these events and illustrate for a particular trading rule. We apply the methodology to tick data for thousands of equities over a period of five days. In order to draw comprehensive conclusions, we group the equities into classes and calculate probabilities of price recovery after these rare events for each class. The methodology that we have developed is based on non-parametric statistics and makes no assumption about the distribution of the random variables in the study.

Keywords: high-frequency trading, average daily volume, trading strategy

JEL Classification: C61

Suggested Citation

Bozdog, Dragos and Florescu, Ionut and Khashanah, Khaldoun and Wang, Jim, Rare Events Analysis of High-Frequency Equity Data (July 1, 2011). Wilmott Journal, pp. 74-81, 2011, Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2013355

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Ionut Florescu

Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business ( email )

Hoboken, NJ 07030
United States

Khaldoun Khashanah

Stevens Institute of Technology ( email )

Hoboken, NJ 07030
United States

Jim Wang

Stevens Institute of Technology ( email )

Hoboken, NJ 07030
United States

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