On the Intertrade Waiting-time Distribution

Continuous-time random walks can be used as phenomenological models of high-frequency time dynamics in financial markets. Empirical analyses show that the intertrade durations (or waiting-times) are non-exponentially distributed. This fact imposes constraints on agent-based models of financial markets based on continuousdouble auctions.

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