Efficient Market Dynamics: Unraveling Informational Efficiency in UK Horse Racing Betting Markets Through Betfair's Time Series Analysis

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contents Using Betfair's time series data, an analysis of the United Kingdom (UK) horse racing market reveals an interesting paradox: a market with short tails, rapidly decaying autocorrelations, and no long-term memory. There seems to be a remarkably high level of informational efficiency in betting exchange returns, in contrast to financial assets that are characterized by heavy tails and volatility clustering. The generalized Gaussian unconditional distribution with a light tail point to a market where knowledge is quickly assimilated and reflected in prices. This is further supported by the extremely quick fading of autocorrelations and the absence of gain-loss asymmetry. Therefore, in addition to measuring long-range memory, the Hurst exponent also shows mean reversion, a sign that markets respond quickly to fresh information.
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spellingShingle Efficient Market Dynamics: Unraveling Informational Efficiency in UK Horse Racing Betting Markets Through Betfair's Time Series Analysis
Tondapu, Narayan
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Artificial Intelligence
Using Betfair's time series data, an analysis of the United Kingdom (UK) horse racing market reveals an interesting paradox: a market with short tails, rapidly decaying autocorrelations, and no long-term memory. There seems to be a remarkably high level of informational efficiency in betting exchange returns, in contrast to financial assets that are characterized by heavy tails and volatility clustering. The generalized Gaussian unconditional distribution with a light tail point to a market where knowledge is quickly assimilated and reflected in prices. This is further supported by the extremely quick fading of autocorrelations and the absence of gain-loss asymmetry. Therefore, in addition to measuring long-range memory, the Hurst exponent also shows mean reversion, a sign that markets respond quickly to fresh information.
title Efficient Market Dynamics: Unraveling Informational Efficiency in UK Horse Racing Betting Markets Through Betfair's Time Series Analysis
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02623