Đo lường mẫu khối lượng trong ngày theo các mức thanh khoản
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Sổ ghi chép này dùng các bản ghi giao dịch suy ra từ NASDAQ ITCH để xem xét hoạt động giao dịch trong ngày. Tài liệu lấy mẫu lại từng giao dịch thành các thanh thời gian và so sánh khối lượng cổ phiếu, số giao dịch, giá cuối cùng và giá bình quân gia quyền theo khối lượng cho một mã được chọn từ mỗi trong ba nhóm hoạt động. Với mã ít hoạt động nhất, tài liệu dùng các thanh rộng hơn để vẫn thấy được những giao dịch thưa thớt. Tài liệu cũng lấy trung bình các mẫu khối lượng đã chuẩn hóa trên những mã hoạt động mạnh nhất; mỗi thanh được biểu thị bằng tỷ lệ trong khối lượng hằng ngày của mã đó để tổng hợp phản ánh thời điểm chứ không phải quy mô giao dịch.
Mẫu được nêu có hình chữ U: hoạt động mạnh hơn gần lúc mở cửa và đóng cửa, còn nhẹ hơn vào khoảng giữa ngày. Sổ ghi chép in ra khối lượng tương đối trong những phần đó của phiên và liên hệ thời điểm trong ngày với thiết kế đặc trưng và thực thi. Đây là minh họa chứ không phải phép thử rộng: tài liệu chỉ bao phủ một địa điểm giao dịch và một phiên, còn mỗi bảng theo nhóm chỉ dùng một mã được chọn theo giá trị giao dịch. Dữ liệu phiên thường lệ loại trừ giao dịch trước giờ mở cửa và sau giờ đóng cửa, nên không nên xem các mẫu quan sát được là hồ sơ đầy đủ của cả ngày.
Ý chính
- Lấy mẫu lại giao dịch tick thành các thanh thời gian giúp thấy rõ thay đổi trong ngày về khối lượng, số giao dịch và giá.
- Chuẩn hóa các thanh của từng mã theo khối lượng hằng ngày trước khi lấy trung bình để so sánh hình dạng trong ngày.
- Sổ ghi chép mô tả hoạt động mạnh hơn gần lúc mở cửa và đóng cửa, nhẹ hơn vào khoảng giữa ngày.
- Các mẫu theo thời điểm trong ngày có thể hỗ trợ thiết kế đặc trưng và lịch thực thi.
- Một địa điểm, một phiên và một mã cho mỗi nhóm hoạt động chỉ minh họa mẫu, không xác lập được mẫu thay đổi thế nào giữa các thị trường hoặc mức thanh khoản.
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# 06_itch_intraday_patterns.py
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# # Intraday Patterns: Volume and Volatility Dynamics
#
# **Chapter 3: Market Microstructure**
#
# **Docker image**: `ml4t`
#
# ## Purpose
#
# Quantify the intraday volume U-shape across high-, medium-, and low-liquidity
# NASDAQ tickers using ITCH-derived trade data, and produce the comparative
# 30-minute-resolution figures that §3.1 and §3.3 reference.
#
# ## Learning Objectives
#
# After completing this notebook, you will be able to:
# - Resample tick-level trades into 30-minute volume bars and recognize the
# open/close hump versus midday lull.
# - Compare intraday patterns across liquidity tiers (TSLA / mid-tier / illiquid)
# and quantify the open-vs-midday volume ratio.
# - Connect the U-shape to feature engineering choices in Chapter 8 (time-of-day
# features, volume-normalized signals).
#
# ## Book reference
#
# Section §3.1 (intraday-flow narrative) and Section §3.3 (stylized-facts
# subsection on intraday U-shape).
#
# ## Prerequisites
#
# - The canonical enriched-trade parquet at
# `03_market_microstructure/output/nasdaq_itch/trading_activity/trades.parquet` and the matching
# `trade_summary.parquet` (used for liquidity-tier symbol selection); both
# are produced by `05_itch_trading_activity`.
#
# ---
# %% [markdown]
# ## 1. Setup
# %%
"""Intraday Patterns — volume and volatility dynamics from NASDAQ ITCH data."""
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import polars as pl
from data import load_nasdaq_itch
from utils.paths import display_path, get_output_dir, require_chapter_inputs
from utils.style import COLORS, show_with_alt
# %% [markdown]
# ### Declared parameters
#
# `MIN_TRADES_LOW` is the floor a ticker must clear to stand for the low-liquidity tier.
# A ticker that printed a handful of trades all day produces a panel with two points on
# it, which shows nothing about intraday shape; the floor picks the least active name
# that still has one.
#
# `PATTERN_TICKERS` is how many of the most actively traded tickers the aggregate
# U-shape averages over. Averaging over a handful would let one name's day decide the
# shape; averaging over everything would let thousands of barely traded ones bury it.
#
# `PATTERN_FREQ` sets the bar width for that aggregate. Thirty minutes divides the
# session into thirteen bars, which is fine enough to separate the open and the close
# from the middle of the day and coarse enough that each bar holds real volume.
# %% tags=["parameters"]
MIN_TRADES_LOW = 500
PATTERN_TICKERS = 20
PATTERN_FREQ = "30m"
# %%
NASDAQ_ITCH_OUTPUT = get_output_dir(3, "nasdaq_itch")
MESSAGE_DIR = load_nasdaq_itch(get_base_path=True)
TRADING_ACTIVITY_DIR = NASDAQ_ITCH_OUTPUT / "trading_activity"
print(f"Input directory (messages): {display_path(MESSAGE_DIR)}")
print(f"Input directory (trade summary): {display_path(TRADING_ACTIVITY_DIR)}")
# %% [markdown]
# ## 2. Load Trade Data
#
# Load outputs from `05_itch_trading_activity`:
# - `trade_summary.parquet`: Aggregated stats by ticker (for symbol selection)
# - `trades.parquet`: Canonical tick-level trades (for analysis)
#
# `trades.parquet` is the table `05_itch_trading_activity` builds by attributing each
# `E` and `C` execution back to a ticker, so reading it here means the two notebooks
# cannot disagree about what a trade is.
# %%
# Load trade summary and canonical trades from notebook 05
TRADE_SUMMARY_PATH = TRADING_ACTIVITY_DIR / "trade_summary.parquet"
TRADES_PATH = TRADING_ACTIVITY_DIR / "trades.parquet"
# Substituting well-known tickers for the ones this dataset actually traded would let
# the notebook finish with nothing to plot, so stop instead and say what is missing.
require_chapter_inputs(
{
MESSAGE_DIR: "01_itch_parser",
TRADE_SUMMARY_PATH: "05_itch_trading_activity",
TRADES_PATH: "05_itch_trading_activity",
}
)
# Load trade summary for ticker selection
trade_summary = pl.read_parquet(TRADE_SUMMARY_PATH)
# Sort explicitly by value to ensure correct selection
trade_summary = trade_summary.sort("total_value", descending=True)
trade_col = next(
(c for c in ("trade_count", "n_trades", "total_trades") if c in trade_summary.columns),
None,
)
if trade_col is None:
# No trade-count column: fall back to the top half by traded value.
active_summary = trade_summary.head(len(trade_summary) // 2)
else:
active_summary = trade_summary.filter(pl.col(trade_col) >= MIN_TRADES_LOW)
num_syms = len(active_summary)
high_sym = active_summary["ticker"][0] # highest value, still traded
mid_sym = active_summary["ticker"][num_syms // 2] # middle of active band
low_sym = active_summary["ticker"][-1] # lowest value above min-activity floor
print(f"Loaded trade summary: {len(trade_summary)} tickers; {num_syms} above min-activity floor")
# Load canonical trades (single source of truth for trade extraction)
all_trades = pl.read_parquet(TRADES_PATH)
print(f"Loaded canonical trades: {len(all_trades):,} trades")
if "msg_type" in all_trades.columns:
msg_breakdown = all_trades.group_by("msg_type").len().sort("msg_type")
print(" Message type breakdown:")
for row in msg_breakdown.iter_rows():
print(f" {row[0]}: {row[1]:>12,}")
print("\nSelected tickers for analysis:")
print(f" High liquidity: {high_sym}")
print(f" Medium liquidity: {mid_sym}")
print(f" Low liquidity: {low_sym}")
# %% [markdown]
# ## 3. Intraday Volume and Price by Liquidity Tier
#
# We resample tick-level trades into intraday bars for one high-, one medium-,
# and one low-liquidity ticker, and read the volume and price panels side by
# side. The bar frequency widens for the illiquid name so its sparse prints
# still form a legible shape.
# %%
def intraday_resample(trades_df: pl.DataFrame, ticker: str, freq: str = "5m") -> pl.DataFrame:
"""
Filter trades for a single ticker and resample to intraday bars.
Args:
trades_df: Canonical trades DataFrame from notebook 05 (trades.parquet)
ticker: Stock symbol to filter
freq: Bar frequency (e.g., "5m", "15m", "30m")
Returns:
DataFrame with columns: timestamp, shares, value, price, vwap, trade_count
"""
if trades_df is None or len(trades_df) == 0:
return pl.DataFrame()
# Filter to ticker
df = trades_df.filter(pl.col("ticker") == ticker)
if len(df) == 0:
return pl.DataFrame()
# Ensure we have required columns (compute value if missing)
required = ["timestamp", "shares", "price"]
if not all(c in df.columns for c in required):
return pl.DataFrame()
if "value" not in df.columns:
df = df.with_columns((pl.col("shares") * pl.col("price")).alias("value"))
df = df.select(["timestamp", "shares", "price", "value"]).sort("timestamp")
# Resample to bars using group_by_dynamic
bars = df.group_by_dynamic("timestamp", every=freq).agg(
[
pl.col("shares").sum().alias("shares"),
pl.col("value").sum().alias("value"),
pl.col("price").last().alias("price"),
pl.len().alias("trade_count"),
]
)
# Calculate VWAP
bars = bars.with_columns(
pl.when(pl.col("shares") > 0)
.then(pl.col("value") / pl.col("shares"))
.otherwise(None)
.alias("vwap")
)
bars = bars.drop_nulls(subset=["price"])
return bars
# %% [markdown]
# ### Plot Intraday Bars
# Resample trades for a ticker and visualize volume and price patterns side by side.
# %%
def plot_intraday_bars(trades_df: pl.DataFrame, ticker: str, freq: str = "5m") -> None:
"""Resample trades for ticker and plot volume and price patterns."""
bars = intraday_resample(trades_df, ticker, freq)
if len(bars) == 0:
print(f"No trade data found for {ticker}.")
return
# Convert to pandas for matplotlib
bars_pd = bars.to_pandas()
fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(12, 8), sharex=True)
fig.suptitle(f"{ticker}: intraday trading in {freq} bars", fontsize=14)
ax1 = axes[0]
ax1.bar(
bars_pd["timestamp"],
bars_pd["shares"],
alpha=0.7,
color=COLORS["blue"],
label="Shares traded",
)
ax1.set_ylabel("Shares traded")
ax1.legend(loc="upper left")
ax1_2 = ax1.twinx()
ax1_2.plot(bars_pd["timestamp"], bars_pd["trade_count"], color=COLORS["amber"], label="Trades")
ax1_2.set_ylabel("Number of trades")
ax1_2.legend(loc="upper right")
ax2 = axes[1]
ax2.plot(
bars_pd["timestamp"], bars_pd["price"], label="Last trade price", color=COLORS["slate"]
)
ax2.plot(
bars_pd["timestamp"],
bars_pd["vwap"],
label="Volume-weighted average price",
color=COLORS["copper"],
linestyle="--",
)
ax2.set_ylabel("Price ($)")
ax2.set_xlabel("Time (US/Eastern)")
ax2.legend()
show_with_alt(
fig,
f"Two stacked panels for {ticker} sharing a clock-time axis over one session. The upper panel is a bar chart of shares traded in each {freq} bar, with a line on a second vertical axis giving the number of trades in the same bar. The lower panel plots two price lines, the last trade price and the volume-weighted average price of the bar, the second dashed.",
)
# %%
print(f"High-Volume Ticker: {high_sym}")
plot_intraday_bars(all_trades, high_sym, freq="5m")
# %%
print(f"Medium-Volume Ticker: {mid_sym}")
plot_intraday_bars(all_trades, mid_sym, freq="5m")
# %%
print(f"Low-Volume Ticker: {low_sym}")
plot_intraday_bars(all_trades, low_sym, freq="15m") # Longer bars for sparse data
# %% [markdown]
# ## 4. The Intraday U-Shape
#
# Averaging volume across the top-20 most active tickers reveals the
# characteristic U-shape: trading concentrates at the open and the close and
# thins out at midday.
# - **High at open**: price discovery and overnight-information incorporation.
# - **Low at midday**: the "lunch lull" of reduced institutional activity.
# - **High at close**: portfolio rebalancing, index arbitrage, and MOC orders.
#
# This regularity drives feature construction in Chapter 8: time-of-day
# features encode it directly.
# %%
def compute_intraday_pattern(
trades_df: pl.DataFrame, tickers: list[str], freq: str = "30m"
) -> pl.DataFrame:
"""
Compute average intraday patterns across multiple tickers.
Args:
trades_df: Canonical trades DataFrame from notebook 05
tickers: List of stock symbols to analyze
freq: Bar frequency (e.g., "30m")
Returns:
DataFrame with time_slot, vol_pct, trade_count, ticker
"""
all_patterns = []
for ticker in tickers:
bars = intraday_resample(trades_df, ticker, freq)
if len(bars) == 0:
continue
# Extract hour and compute relative metrics
bars = bars.with_columns(
pl.col("timestamp").dt.hour().alias("hour"),
pl.col("timestamp").dt.minute().alias("minute"),
)
# Compute time-of-day slot (e.g., 9:30 -> 9.5)
bars = bars.with_columns((pl.col("hour") + pl.col("minute") / 60).alias("time_slot"))
# Each ticker's bars are expressed as shares of its own daily total, so that a
# mega-cap and a mid-cap contribute equally to the average shape rather than in
# proportion to their size.
total_vol = bars["shares"].sum()
if total_vol > 0:
bars = bars.with_columns(
(pl.col("shares") / total_vol).alias("vol_pct"),
pl.lit(ticker).alias("ticker"),
)
all_patterns.append(bars.select(["time_slot", "vol_pct", "trade_count", "ticker"]))
if not all_patterns:
return pl.DataFrame()
return pl.concat(all_patterns)
# %%
top_tickers = trade_summary.head(PATTERN_TICKERS)["ticker"].to_list()
pattern_df = compute_intraday_pattern(all_trades, top_tickers, freq=PATTERN_FREQ)
assert not pattern_df.is_empty(), (
f"None of the {len(top_tickers)} most active tickers produced intraday bars; the "
f"trade table is empty or carries no usable timestamps."
)
hourly_pattern = (
pattern_df.group_by("time_slot")
.agg(
pl.col("vol_pct").mean().alias("avg_vol_pct"),
pl.col("vol_pct").std().alias("std_vol_pct"),
pl.col("trade_count").mean().alias("avg_trades"),
)
.sort("time_slot")
# Regular trading hours only: pre- and post-market bars are a different market with
# its own participants, and mixing them in flattens the shape being measured.
.filter((pl.col("time_slot") >= 9.5) & (pl.col("time_slot") <= 16))
)
# %%
times = hourly_pattern["time_slot"].to_numpy()
vol_pct = hourly_pattern["avg_vol_pct"].to_numpy() * 100
vol_std = hourly_pattern["std_vol_pct"].to_numpy() * 100
trades = hourly_pattern["avg_trades"].to_numpy()
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 5))
axes[0].fill_between(
times,
vol_pct - vol_std,
vol_pct + vol_std,
alpha=0.3,
color=COLORS["blue"],
label="±1 standard deviation across tickers",
)
axes[0].plot(times, vol_pct, color=COLORS["blue"], linewidth=2, marker="o", label="Mean")
axes[0].set_xlabel("Time of day (US/Eastern, hours)")
axes[0].set_ylabel("Share of the ticker's daily volume (%)")
axes[0].set_title("Volume by time of day, averaged over the most active tickers")
axes[0].axhline(
100 / len(times),
color=COLORS["negative"],
linestyle="--",
label="Even across the session",
)
axes[0].legend()
axes[0].set_xlim(9.5, 16)
axes[1].bar(times, trades, width=0.4, alpha=0.7, color=COLORS["blue"])
axes[1].set_xlabel("Time of day (US/Eastern, hours)")
axes[1].set_ylabel(f"Mean trades per {PATTERN_FREQ} bar")
axes[1].set_title("Number of trades by time of day, the same tickers")
axes[1].set_xlim(9.5, 16)
show_with_alt(
fig,
"Two panels side by side, both against time of day from the 09:30 open to the 16:00 close. The left plots the mean share of a ticker's daily volume falling in each bar as a line with circular markers, inside a shaded band of one standard deviation across tickers, with a dashed horizontal line marking the level an even split across the session would give. The right is a bar chart of the mean number of trades in each bar over the same hours.",
)
# Name the bars by the clock, not by position: the number of bars follows from
# PATTERN_FREQ, so an index into the middle is not a fixed time of day.
def slot_label(slot: float) -> str:
"""Render a decimal hour such as 12.5 as a clock time."""
hour, minute = divmod(round(slot * 60), 60)
return f"{hour:02d}:{minute:02d}"
midday = int(np.argmin(np.abs(times - 12.5)))
print(f"Share of daily volume by {PATTERN_FREQ} bar, averaged over the selected tickers:")
print(f" Opening bar ({slot_label(times[0])}): {vol_pct[0]:.1f}%")
print(f" Midday bar ({slot_label(times[midday])}): {vol_pct[midday]:.1f}%")
print(f" Closing bar ({slot_label(times[-1])}): {vol_pct[-1]:.1f}%")
print(
f" Opening and closing bars against the midday bar: "
f"{(vol_pct[0] + vol_pct[-1]) / (2 * vol_pct[midday]):.1f}x"
)
# %% [markdown]
# ## Key Takeaways
#
# 1. **Volume is not spread evenly across a session.** The opening and closing bars carry
# a multiple of what a midday bar carries; the figure above draws the level an even
# split would give, and the printed ratio says by how much the ends exceed the middle.
# Any statistic computed per bar - a volatility, a spread, an average trade size - is
# estimated from very different sample sizes depending on when the bar falls.
# 2. **Normalise each ticker before averaging shapes.** Expressing every bar as a share
# of that ticker's own day is what makes the average a shape rather than a picture of
# whichever ticker traded most.
# 3. **Read the bar by the clock, not by its index.** The number of bars follows from the
# chosen frequency, so 'the middle one' is a different time of day at 15 minutes than
# at 30, and a label written against one is wrong for the other.
# 4. **Time of day is a feature.** Chapter 8 encodes it directly, and this is the shape
# it encodes.
#
# ### Known limitations
#
# - One venue and one session. The U-shape is a well-established regularity, and one day
# of one venue illustrates it rather than establishing it.
# - The three per-tier panels are one ticker each, chosen by traded value. They show what
# the shape looks like at different activity levels; they do not test whether it varies
# systematically with liquidity, which would need the whole cross-section.
# - Regular trading hours only. Pre- and post-market bars are dropped rather than shown.
#
# **Next**: `07_itch_stylized_facts` for bid-ask bounce and liquidity.
#
# ---
#
# ## Reference
#
# Bouchaud, J.-P., Bonart, J., Donier, J., & Gould, M. (2018).
# *Trades, Quotes and Prices: Financial Markets Under the Microscope*.
# Cambridge University Press.
# [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009028943](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009028943)
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