Order Placement Patterns Across Chinese Stock Auction Phases

Summary

This study examines how traders place orders during the opening call auction, the cooling period, and continuous trading on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It uses ultra-high-frequency order-flow data from 23 stocks and compares order prices relative to reference prices across the three phases.

The reported distributions share qualitative similarities, but differ quantitatively. Placement behavior also varies between buyers and sellers, and between orders inside and outside the book. In continuous trading, conditional relative-price distributions are reported as independent of bid-ask spread and volatility. These empirical patterns may inform behavioral models of Chinese equity order flow. The document provides a market-specific description rather than a trading strategy or causal explanation, and the evidence is limited to the sampled stocks and observed periods.

Key ideas

• The study compares relative order prices across three trading phases in Shenzhen-listed stocks.
• Order-price distributions are qualitatively similar across phases but differ in magnitude.
• Buyers and sellers show asymmetric placement behavior.
• Orders inside and outside the book exhibit different placement patterns.
• In continuous trading, relative-price distributions are reported as independent of spread and volatility.

Tags

# Empirical regularities of order placement in the Chinese stock market


# Empirical regularities of order placement in the Chinese stock market









Using ultra-high-frequency data extracted from the order flows of 23 stocks traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, we study the empirical regularities of order placement in the opening call auction, cool period and continuous auction. The distributions of relative logarithmic prices against reference prices in the three time periods are qualitatively the same with quantitative discrepancies. The order placement behavior is asymmetric between buyers and sellers and between the inside-the-book orders and outside-the-book orders. In addition, the conditional distributions of relative prices in the continuous auction are independent of the bid-ask spread and volatility. These findings are crucial to build an empirical behavioral microscopic model based on order flows for Chinese stocks.

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