Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics (a) Yearly cross-sectional...
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A Dynamic Intraday Measure of the Probability of Informed Trading and
Firm-Specific Return Variation
Sanders Chang, Lenisa Chang, F. Albert Wang
University of Dayton and University of Cincinnati
Motivation
The role of information in asset prices Two types of traders: informed vs.
uninformed (Kyle 1985, Black 1986, Campbell et al. 1993)
Existing Probability of informed trading (PIN) measures based on a sequential trade model (Easley et al. 1997, 2002)
But, PIN measures static info trading over a very long macro horizon (1 month to 1 year)
PIN Measure (Easley et al. 1997, 2002)
The likelihood function for a single trading day
Maximum likelihood estimation over T days
PIN Measure
The probability of informed trading
One must aggregate very fine intraday data (5-min intervals) within the trading day across multiple days
T The variation and info content of intraday
trades is diluted, or even lost in such a macro horizon
Twofold Aim of the Study
Develop a dynamic intraday version of PIN (i.e., DPIN) for informed trading at high frequencies: 15-minute intervals throughout the trading day
Examine the relationship between private information (measured by DPIN) and firm-specific return variation to validate Roll’s (1988) conjecture
Data (1993-2008)
Intraday transaction data come from the Trades and Quotes (TAQ) database
Share code, shares outstanding, etc. are from the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
NYSE stocks with at least 250 trades per month, excluding foreign firms, ETF, CEF, and REIT
Each trading day divided into 26 (15-min) intervals.
A total of 14,405,663 firm-interval observations
Herding vs. Contrarian Trades The unexpected return of 15-min interval from
residual
Calculate # of buy (NB), sell (NS), total trades (NT) for each interval based on Lee and Ready (1991)
Contrarian (herding) trades are to buy (sell) in presence of negative unexpected returns or to sell (buy) in presence of unexpected positive returns
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Rationales behind DPIN Uninformed trading is associated with
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Unexpected returns exhibit significant negative serial correlation for herding trades while no serial correlation for contrarian trades (Aramov et al 2006)
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Baseline DPIN Measure Contrarian trades are closely akin to
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Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
The DPIN_BASE measure yields adequate cross-sectional variation across stocks
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DPIN with Disposition Effect
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Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
DPIN_DISP distribution mimics that of DPIN_BASE, but with slightly less than half the mean and median
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DPIN with Size Effect
Informed traders are more likely to submit larger orders (Easley and O'Hara 1987)
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Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
DPIN_SIZE distribution mimics that of PIN (Easley et al. 2002) with similar mean, median, left skew, and long right tail
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DIPN_SIZE vs. PIN (Easley et al. 1997, 2002)
Informed traders are more likely to submit large orders given information event (Easley et al. 1987)
By construction, DIPN_SIZE implicitly assumes information event occurs only with large orders
DIPN_SIZE is closest to the PIN of Easley et al. (1997, 2002) partly because Size may serve as a proxy for the occurrence of the information event
Yearly DPIN: Summary Statistics
Measure MeanMedia
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DPINBASE 0.458 0.455 0.036 0.274 0.733 DPINDISP 0.215 0.215 0.029 0.073 0.401 DPINSIZE 0.231 0.227 0.027 0.133 0.500
Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
The means and medians of the refined DPINs are quite close to the PIN measure of Easley et al. (2002): 0.191 and 0.185
Yearly Cross-Sectional Average DPIN over Time
Yearly C-S average DPINs mimic that of PIN (Easley et al. 2002) with little year-to-year variation or with much stability over time
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Intraday DPIN and Firm Characteristics
Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
Stocks with higher DPIN are more opaque as they are associated with much smaller firm size, lower volume, and higher illiquidity
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DPINBASE High 1,899 819,299 7.051 103,740 Low 2,306 5,448,227 0.760 591,708 DPINDISP High 2,046 1,265,812 6.094 162,587 Low 2,159 5,340,255 1.241 569,050 DPINSIZE High 1,721 534,357 7.715 67,367 Low 2,484 5,313,942 0.751 581,898
Intraday DPIN: Summary Statistics
The STDs are much higher and the medians for the two refined DPINs are zero, hence no information events for many intervals
Measure Mean Median STD 25th % 75th %
DPINBASE 0.447 0.431 0.297 0.250 0.600
DPINDISP 0.212 0.000 0.301 0.000 0.417
DPINSIZE 0.222 0.000 0.289 0.000 0.429
The U-shaped Intraday DPIN for large size
The U-shaped intraday pattern is consistent with the clustering of uninformed trading and the corresponding strategic informed trading (Kyle 1985, Admati and Pfleiderer 1988)
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The Inverse U-shaped DPIN for Small Size
Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
Stealth trading: informed traders break up large orders into a series of small trades to hide their information (Barclay and Warner 1993, Chakravarty 2001, Alexander and Peterson 2007)
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Is DPIN a Good Proxy for Informed Trading?
The yearly DPIN is consistent with the prior literature of informed trading as it closely mimics the PIN measure of Easley et al. (2002)
The intraday DPIN is closely associated with firm characteristics in terms of the degree of opaqueness
The intraday DPIN captures strategic informed trading: a U-shaped pattern for large trades (Wood et al. 1985, Jain and Joh 1988) and an inverse U-shaped pattern for small trades (Blau et al. 2009)
Firm-Specific Return Variation (FSRV)
A daily market model regression (e.g., Roll 1988, Durnev et al. 2004, 2005, and Chen et al. 2007)
The R-squared statistic from the regression:
FSRV measures the unexplained daily variation in a firm’s return after market returns
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Empirical Tests Fama-MacBeth (1973) Regression with a
total of N = 4,191 stocks and T = 3,994 days in regressions
Regression on first-differenced data to remove firm fixed effects and lower persistence in the data
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Can DPIN Explain FSRV?
Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
FSRV FSRV FSRV
DPINBASE 0.558*** (28.55) DPINBASE, t-1 0.467*** (24.29) DPINDISP 0.270*** (16.91) DPINDISP,t-1 0.093*** (7.64) DPINSIZE 0.640***
(21.63)DPINSIZE,t-1 0.569*** (21.90)Wald 1411.5*** 343.24*** 947.39***
DPIN and its lag are jointly significant at the 1% level
Informed trading causes firm-specific return variation – Roll √
Can DPIN Explain FSRV (Cont’d)?
Table 1: Summary statistics for DPIN measures and firm characteristics(a) Yearly cross-sectional DPIN across all years(b) DPIN and firm characteristics
∆DPIN and its lag are jointly significant at the 1% level
Informed trading causes firm-specific return variation – Roll √
∆FSRV ∆FSRV ∆FSRV
∆DPINBASE 0.150***
(8.31) ∆DPINBASE, t-1 0.054***
(2.99) ∆DPINDISP 0.194***
(11.07) ∆DPINDISP,t-1 0.033*
(1.77) ∆DPINSIZE 0.145***
(5.32)∆DPINSIZE,t-1 0.072***
(2.72)Wald 77.87*** 125.79*** 34.61***
Robustness Check
Equally weighted and valued weighted market model to measure FSRV
Fama-MacBeth regressions on time-demeaned data (Skoulakis 2008) to eliminate firm fixed effects
Reverse causality by regressing DPIN on FSRV
All robustness checks render support to our main finding: Informed trading causes firm-specific return variation, and not vice versa
Conclusion
Construct a dynamic PIN measure that is easy to implement, compared to the existing static PIN measure (Easley et al. 1997, 2002)
The intraday DPIN captures strategic informed trading: a U-shaped pattern for large trades and an inverse U-shaped pattern for small trades
Use DPIN to examine the empirical link between private info and firm-specific return variation (FSRV)
Confirm Roll’s (1988) conjecture that FSRV is driven by private info, and not vice versa