학술논문

Detecting and Triaging Spoofing using Temporal Convolutional Networks
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
AAAI 2024 Workshop on AI in Finance for Social Impact
Subject
Quantitative Finance - Trading and Market Microstructure
Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Computer Science - Machine Learning
Quantitative Finance - Computational Finance
Quantitative Finance - General Finance
Language
Abstract
As algorithmic trading and electronic markets continue to transform the landscape of financial markets, detecting and deterring rogue agents to maintain a fair and efficient marketplace is crucial. The explosion of large datasets and the continually changing tricks of the trade make it difficult to adapt to new market conditions and detect bad actors. To that end, we propose a framework that can be adapted easily to various problems in the space of detecting market manipulation. Our approach entails initially employing a labelling algorithm which we use to create a training set to learn a weakly supervised model to identify potentially suspicious sequences of order book states. The main goal here is to learn a representation of the order book that can be used to easily compare future events. Subsequently, we posit the incorporation of expert assessment to scrutinize specific flagged order book states. In the event of an expert's unavailability, recourse is taken to the application of a more complex algorithm on the identified suspicious order book states. We then conduct a similarity search between any new representation of the order book against the expert labelled representations to rank the results of the weak learner. We show some preliminary results that are promising to explore further in this direction