CISCo

A Simple Order-driven Stock Market with Zero Intelligence Traders

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Once a trader is willing to buy or sell, she is red or yellow, green if she does not want to engage in market activity.

You may use the sliders in order to try to find wich configuration produces the maximum stylized facts :

tick-size
which prices can you produce ? 100, 100.1, 100.12, 100.(3/16), etc.
% of cancellation
how much of the ask-list and the bid-list is cancelled at each new iteration
speakers
how many traders are allowded to speak at the same time ?

Acknowledgements

This applet has been created by Olivier Brandouy using the NetLogo tool.

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