scholarly journals Testing Stylized Facts of Bitcoin Limit Order Books

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Schnaubelt ◽  
Jonas Rende ◽  
Christopher Krauss

The majority of electronic markets worldwide employ limit order books, and the recently emerging exchanges for cryptocurrencies pose no exception. With this work, we empirically analyze whether commonly observed empirical properties from established limit order exchanges transfer to the cryptocurrency domain. Based on the literature, we establish a structured methodological framework to conduct analyses in a systematic and comprehensive way. We then present results from a unique and extensive limit order data set acquired from major cryptocurrency exchanges for the currency pair Bitcoin to US Dollar. We recover many observations from mature markets, such as a symmetry between the average ask and the average bid side of the order book, autocorrelation in returns on the smallest time scales only, volatility clustering and the timing of large trades. We also observe some idiosyncrasies: The distributions of trade size and limit order prices deviate from commonly observed patterns. Also, we find limit order books to be relatively shallow and liquidity costs to be relatively high when compared to established markets.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-541
Author(s):  
Abhinava Tripathi ◽  
Vipul Vipul ◽  
Alok Dixit

Purpose This study aims to provide a systematic literature review of the research study in the area of limit order book (LOB) mechanism of trading and its implications for market efficiency. The study attempts to document the recent theoretical developments and empirical findings from the literature exhaustively and identifies the research gaps for future research. Design/methodology/approach The study uses seven reputable databases to select 2,514 research studies spanning over 1981-2018 (finally compressed to a pool of 103 articles, based on relevance and impact). The study uses bibliometric network visualization and text analytics to categorize and examine the literature. The chosen articles are compiled and analyzed to provide a comprehensive account of the current research on LOBs. Findings The recent LOB literature is summarized on various criteria as follows: sub-areas, the types of economies and markets, methodologies and the LOB measures. The review identifies a dearth of studies on the LOBs in emerging markets. It suggests the potential research areas as intraday studies in emerging LOB markets; application of market indicators based on deeper levels of LOB, beyond the best prices; market fragmentation, order routing decision and its impact on order execution quality; optimal display of LOB levels; liquidity dynamics in quote-driven markets vis-à-vis LOB markets; effect of high-frequency trading on market microstructure; application of advanced techniques (e.g. machine learning models, zero-intelligent models); relationship between the trading speed, order aggressiveness, shape and resilience of the order book and informed trading; and information content of the auxiliary order submission strategies, including cancellation, amendments and hidden orders. Originality/value For the past 15 years, to the best of the knowledge, a comprehensive review of the literature on LOBs has not been published. The financial markets have transformed significantly over this period, driven by the adoption of LOBs, low latency trading and technological advancements in information dissemination. This article provides an extensive collection and classification of the literature on LOBs. This would be useful for the practitioners, future researchers and academics in the area of financial markets.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750019 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANATOLIY SWISHCHUK ◽  
TYLER HOFMEISTER ◽  
KATHARINA CERA ◽  
JULIA SCHMIDT

The paper considers a general semi-Markov model for limit order books with two states that incorporates price changes that are not fixed to one tick. Furthermore, we introduce an even more general case of the semi-Markov model for limit order books that incorporates an arbitrary number of states for the price changes. For both cases, the justifications, diffusion limits, implementations and numerical results are presented for different limit order book data: Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel on 21 June 2012 and Cisco, Facebook, Intel, Liberty Global, Liberty Interactive, Microsoft, Vodafone from 3 November 2014 to 7 November 2014.


2015 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efstathios Panayi ◽  
Gareth W. Peters

In this paper, we develop a new form of simulation model for limit order books based on heterogeneous trading agents, whose motivations are liquidity driven. These agents are abstractions of real market participants, expressed in a stochastic model framework. We develop an efficient way to perform statistical calibration of the model parameters on Level 2 limit order book data from Chi-X, based on a combination of indirect inference and multi-objective optimization. We then demonstrate how such a modeling framework can be of use in testing exchange regulations, as well as informing brokerage decisions and other trading based scenarios.


2017 ◽  
Vol 03 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 1850006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Bechler ◽  
Mike Ludkovski

We investigate the behavior of limit order books (LOBs) on the meso-scale motivated by order execution scheduling algorithms. To do so, we carry out empirical analysis of the order flows from market and limit order submissions, aggregated from tick-by-tick data via volume-based bucketing, as well as various LOB depth and shape metrics. We document a nonlinear relationship between trade imbalance and price change, which however can be converted into a linear link by considering a weighted average of market and limit order flows. We also document a hockey-stick dependence between trade imbalance and one-sided limit order flows, highlighting numerous asymmetric effects between the active and passive sides of the LOB. To address the phenomenological features of price formation, we construct regression models to identify the most significant predictors, confirming the predictive power of limit order flows. Another finding is that the deeper LOB shape, rather than just the book imbalance, is more relevant on this timescale. The empirical results are based on analysis of six large-tick assets from Nasdaq.


2017 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Frey ◽  
Patrik Sandås

We examine the impact of iceberg orders on the price and order flow dynamics in limit order books. Iceberg orders allow traders to simultaneously hide a large portion of their order size and signal their interest in trading to the market. We show that when market participants detect iceberg orders they tend to strongly respond by submitting matching market orders consistent with iceberg orders facilitating the search for latent liquidity. The greater the fraction of an iceberg order that is executed, the smaller is its price impact consistent with liquidity rather than informed trading. The presence of iceberg orders is associated with increased trading consistent with a positive liquidity externality, but the reduced order book transparency associated with iceberg orders also creates an adverse selection cost for limit orders that may partly offset any gains.


2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 625-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Simatos

We consider a model for a one-sided limit order book proposed by Lakner, Reed and Stoikov (2013). We show that it can be coupled with a branching random walk and use this coupling to answer a nontrivial question about the long-term behavior of the price. The coupling relies on a classical idea of enriching the state space by artificially creating a filiation, in this context between orders of the book, which we believe has the potential of being useful for a broader class of models.


2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 625-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Simatos

We consider a model for a one-sided limit order book proposed by Lakner, Reed and Stoikov (2013). We show that it can be coupled with a branching random walk and use this coupling to answer a nontrivial question about the long-term behavior of the price. The coupling relies on a classical idea of enriching the state space by artificially creating a filiation, in this context between orders of the book, which we believe has the potential of being useful for a broader class of models.


Author(s):  
Frederic Abergel ◽  
Anirban Chakraborti ◽  
Aymen Jedidi ◽  
Ioane Muni Toke ◽  
Marouane Anane

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin A. Sirignano

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