Developing Arbitrage Strategy in High-frequency Pairs Trading with Filterbank CNN Algorithm

By Yu-Ying Chen, Wei-Lun Chen, Szu-Hao Huang. 2018

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Pairs trading is a statistical arbitrage strategy, which selects a set of assets with similar performance and produces profits during these asset prices far away from rational equilibrium. Once this phenomenon exists, traders can earn the spread by longing the underperforming asset and shorting the outperforming asset. This paper proposed a novel intelligent high-frequency pairs trading system in Taiwan Stock Index Futures (TX) and Mini Index Futures (MTX) market based on deep learning techniques. This research utilized the improved time series visualization method to transfer historical volatilities with different time frames into 2D images which are helpful in capturing arbitrage signals. Moreover, this research improved convolutional neural networks (CNN) model by combining the financial domain knowledge and filterbank mechanism. We proposed Filterbank CNN to extract high-quality features by replacing the random-generating filters with the arbitrage knowledge filters. In summary, the accuracy is enhanced through the proposed method, and it proves that the integrated information technology and financial knowledge could create the better pairs trading system.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Management Science and Operations Research

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