Bit by Bit: How to Realistically Simulate a Crypto-Exchange
Bit by Bit: How to Realistically Simulate a Crypto-Exchange
A market simulator is an environment which allows its users to participate in a synthetic market to test and hypothesise new strategies. Creating a simulator which can replicate the market dynamics accurately is challenging, due to the various knock-on effects of a participant’s action in a live market setting. In this paper, we present a multi-agent simulation capable of effectively representing a cryptocurrency exchange, by populating a high-fidelity market simulator with a set of low intelligence agents to represent distinct types of market participants. By fine tuning the ratios and the hyperparameters of these agents against empirical findings from the cryptocurrency market, we present a simulation with the ability to closely mimic expected market behaviour.
Financial Exchange, Continuous Double Auction, Market Simulation, Multi-Agent System, Cryptocurrency, Limit Order Book
Association for Computing Machinery
Cho, Christopher Jaehoon
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Norman, Timothy
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4 November 2021
Cho, Christopher Jaehoon
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Norman, Timothy
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Cho, Christopher Jaehoon and Norman, Timothy
(2021)
Bit by Bit: How to Realistically Simulate a Crypto-Exchange.
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance.
Association for Computing Machinery.
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A market simulator is an environment which allows its users to participate in a synthetic market to test and hypothesise new strategies. Creating a simulator which can replicate the market dynamics accurately is challenging, due to the various knock-on effects of a participant’s action in a live market setting. In this paper, we present a multi-agent simulation capable of effectively representing a cryptocurrency exchange, by populating a high-fidelity market simulator with a set of low intelligence agents to represent distinct types of market participants. By fine tuning the ratios and the hyperparameters of these agents against empirical findings from the cryptocurrency market, we present a simulation with the ability to closely mimic expected market behaviour.
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Published date: 4 November 2021
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Financial Exchange, Continuous Double Auction, Market Simulation, Multi-Agent System, Cryptocurrency, Limit Order Book
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