Chen YOU;Xin Min ZHANG;Xue Feng SONG
Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 2004, 14(2): 244-252.
For a Stock Market, the critical problem is the maintenance of its liquidity. Market
liquidity can be described in various ways, in particular, in terms of the bid/offer
spread and the market depth. Model of market liquidity dynamics has been proposed in
Schmidt, A.B.' literate. In our study, we improve his model. On one hand, we think that
trading volume is determined by the total number of traders, as well as the relations
between the numbers of buyers and sellers, while the model of Schmidt only considers the
first item. On the other hand, Schmidt assumes that the number of ``newcomers" in the
market is in proportion to the current number of trades. However, we all know that the
continual rise or fall of the price will also attract more buyers or sellers, that is,
``newcomers", into the market, which he has not taken for granted. We also prove it to be
a chaos model through analysis of Lyapunov exponent. On the assumption that price
variation can be neglected, we discuss the conditions in which chaos will emerge.
Finally, we implement a computer simulation of the model in MATLAB, and get more
interesting results.