All books

Professional

Apps About Coach Log in Start reading

Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Fundamentalist agent, chartist agent?

Also known as: fundamentalist agent · chartist agent

Definition 27.2 Microstructure and Execution · Chapter 27 — Build: an Agent-Based Market

A fundamentalist agent trades toward a value it believes the asset is worth: it buys when the price is below that value and sells when it is above, more often the larger the gap. A chartist agent trades on the price’s own recent history, typically in the direction of its recent trend.

The population. The three types on the left run as one agent, Population, on independent Poisson clocks; the chartists belong to it too, but are new in this chapter; the market maker and the execution agents are separate agents with their own sessions and a 20-microsecond latency.
Figure 27.1. The population. The three types on the left run as one agent, Population, on independent Poisson clocks; the chartists belong to it too, but are new in this chapter; the market maker and the execution agents are separate agents with their own sessions and a 20-microsecond latency.
Read in context →