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Distributions and Long-Range Correlations in the Trading of US Stocks
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Summary
We analyze the sequence of time intervals between consecutive stock trades of five large companies representing different sectors of the US economy over a period of four years. We show that independent of the industry sector and average level of activity, the series of intertrade times exhibit common statistical features. Specifically, we find that: (1) the tail of the probability density function of intertrade times may be fit by a stretched exponential form; (ii) the probability densities of the intertrade times for all five companies collapse onto a single curve when appropriately resealed, and (iii) the intertrade times exhibit correlated behaviour over hundreds of trades within a trading day and an even greater degree of correlation over longer time scales.
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Trading Activity Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Myosin Heavy Chain Gene Persistent Behaviour Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Method
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