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Zooming In on Equity Factor Crowding

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  • Valerio Volpati

    (CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)

  • Michael Benzaquen

    (LadHyX - Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique - X - École polytechnique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Zoltán Eisler
  • Iacopo Mastromatteo

    (SISSA / ISAS - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati / International School for Advanced Studies)

  • Bence Tóth
  • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

    (CFM - Capital Fund Management - Capital Fund Management)

Abstract

Crowding is most likely an important factor in the deterioration of strategy performance, the increase of trading costs and the development of systemic risk. We study the imprints of crowding on both anonymous market data and a large database of metaorders from institutional investors in the U.S. equity market. We propose direct metrics of crowding that capture the presence of investors contemporaneously trading the same stock in the same direction by looking at fluctuations of the imbalances of trades executed on the market. We identify significant signs of crowding in well known equity signals, such as Fama-French factors and especially Momentum. We show that the rebalancing of a Momentum portfolio can explain between 1-2% of order flow, and that this percentage has been significantly increasing in recent years.

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  • Valerio Volpati & Michael Benzaquen & Zoltán Eisler & Iacopo Mastromatteo & Bence Tóth & Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, 2020. "Zooming In on Equity Factor Crowding," Post-Print hal-02567503, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02567503
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    Cited by:

    1. Eyal Neuman & Moritz Vo{ss}, 2021. "Trading with the Crowd," Papers 2106.09267, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2023.
    2. Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, 2021. "Radical Complexity," Papers 2103.09692, arXiv.org.

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    crowding; equity factors; momentum; market microstructure;
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