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Modelling financial markets with agents competing on different time scales and with different amount of information

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  • Wohlmuth, Johannes
  • Andersen, Jørgen Vitting

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We use agent-based models to study the competition among investors who use trading strategies with different amount of information and with different time scales. We find that mixing agents that trade on the same time scale but with different amount of information has a stabilizing impact on the large and extreme fluctuations of the market. Traders with the most information are found to be more likely to arbitrage traders who use less information in the decision making. On the other hand, introducing investors who act on two different time scales has a destabilizing effect on the large and extreme price movements, increasing the volatility of the market. Closeness in time scale used in the decision making is found to facilitate the creation of local trends. The larger the overlap in commonly shared information the more the traders in a mixed system with different time scales are found to profit from the presence of traders acting at another time scale than themselves.

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  • Wohlmuth, Johannes & Andersen, Jørgen Vitting, 2006. "Modelling financial markets with agents competing on different time scales and with different amount of information," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 363(2), pages 459-468.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:363:y:2006:i:2:p:459-468
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.08.067
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    1. Yi-Fang Liu & Wei Zhang & Chao Xu & Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Hai-Chuan Xu, 2014. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-01011701, HAL.
    2. Yi-Fang Liu & Wei Zhang & Chao Xu & Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Hai-Chuan Xu, 2014. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Post-Print halshs-01215947, HAL.
    3. Liu, Yi-Fang & Zhang, Wei & Xu, Chao & Vitting Andersen, Jørgen & Xu, Hai-Chuan, 2014. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 407(C), pages 204-215.
    4. Magda Roszczynska-Kurasinska & Andrzej Nowak & Daniel Kamieniarz & Sorin Solomon & Jørgen Vitting Andersen, 2012. "Short and Long Term Investor Synchronization Caused by Decoupling," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-00853991, HAL.
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    7. Yi-Fang Liu & Wei Zhang & Chao Xu & J{o}rgen Vitting Andersen & Hai-Chuan Xu, 2013. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Papers 1311.4274, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2014.
    8. Crepaldi, Antonio F. & Neto, Camilo Rodrigues & Ferreira, Fernando F. & Francisco, Gerson, 2009. "Multifractal regime transition in a modified minority game model," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 42(3), pages 1364-1371.
    9. Magda Roszczynska-Kurasinska & Andrzej Nowak & Daniel Kamieniarz & Sorin Solomon & Jørgen Vitting Andersen, 2012. "Short and Long Term Investor Synchronization Caused by Decoupling," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(12), pages 1-8, December.
    10. Yi-Fang Liu & Wei Zhang & Chao Xu & Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Hai-Chuan Xu, 2014. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00983051, HAL.
    11. Yi-Fang Liu & Wei Zhang & Chao Xu & Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Hai-Chuan Xu, 2014. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-01215947, HAL.
    12. Yi-Fang Liu & Wei Zhang & Chao Xu & Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Hai-Chuan Xu, 2014. "Impact of information cost and switching of trading strategies in an artificial stock market," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 14031, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.

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