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Bitcoin price manipulation: evidence from intraday orders and trades

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  • Bill Hu
  • Joon Ho Hwang
  • Chinmay Jain
  • Jim Washam

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We analyse 519.4 million Bitcoin orders placed on Gemini Exchange during January 2016-August 2019 and find limit orders dominate at 99.92%. We document order-based evidence of price manipulation during the Bitcoin bubble in late 2017, when the daily number of market orders during the bubble period more than triples the overall daily average. The changes in both prices and liquidity satisfy two criteria specified in Kyle and Viswanathan (2008) for the price manipulation definition. Moreover, we find a significant increase in market order imbalance associated with price manipulations modelled in Jarrow, Protter and Roch (2012).

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  • Bill Hu & Joon Ho Hwang & Chinmay Jain & Jim Washam, 2022. "Bitcoin price manipulation: evidence from intraday orders and trades," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 140-144, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:29:y:2022:i:2:p:140-144
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1861183
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    1. Wang, Fang & Gacesa, Marko, 2023. "Semi-strong efficient market of Bitcoin and Twitter: An analysis of semantic vector spaces of extracted keywords and light gradient boosting machine models," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).

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