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HFT of a Single Asset

In: High-Frequency Trading and Probability Theory

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  • Zhaodong Wang
  • Weian Zheng

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As we have noticed in Section 5.4, the paired trading needs successful execution of four orders for two assets. Therefore, it is natural to ask if a trader can make profit just from repeatedly trading one single financial derivative. There is a big debate on profitability of market timing.We are not interested in taking part in this debate but have a remark as follows. Investors use day or month as the timescale to see the change of the fundamentals, while the time unit is a seconds in high-frequency trading (HFT). When the time is measured by a seconds, the most information one can based on is the momentum shown by technical indicators. From mathematical point of view, the only available information is the stationarity of certain pattern, which can be justified by statistics…

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  • Zhaodong Wang & Weian Zheng, 2014. "HFT of a Single Asset," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: High-Frequency Trading and Probability Theory, chapter 7, pages 141-153, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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