Intraday Trading Invariance in the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Market

50 Pages Posted: 22 Nov 2015 Last revised: 8 Aug 2018

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Torben G. Andersen

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Aarhus University - CREATES

Oleg Bondarenko

University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance

Albert S. Kyle

University of Maryland

Anna A. Obizhaeva

New Economic School (NES)

Date Written: August 3, 2018

Abstract

We document a transaction level invariance relation among concurrent activity variables in the S&P 500 futures market: return volatility per transaction is proportional to the inverse of the squared expected trade size. It captures the time series behavior extremely well. Even more strikingly, it also provides a good fit to the intraday activity patterns. No prior study quantifies this association across the daily trading cycle or predicts the time series and intraday interactions to line up in a consistent manner. The findings pose a challenge for theories seeking to rationalize the trading process on the world's primary equity-index futures market.

Keywords: market microstructure, invariance, high-frequency trading, liquidity, volatility, volume, time series, intraday patterns

Suggested Citation

Andersen, Torben G. and Bondarenko, Oleg and Kyle, Albert (Pete) S. and Obizhaeva, Anna A., Intraday Trading Invariance in the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Market (August 3, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2693810 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2693810

Torben G. Andersen

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Albert (Pete) S. Kyle

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Anna A. Obizhaeva

New Economic School (NES) ( email )

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Russia

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