Which Exchanges Have Bitcoin Prices Started To Change First?

Which Exchanges Digital Asset Research Study Analyzes The Impact Of Bitcoin Spot Market Structure On Price Discovery Through Lead-lag (Lead / Lag) Data.

After Analyzing More Than 106 “volatility Events” (The Bitcoin Price Changed More Than $ 100 In 5.5 Minutes) Between April And December Last Year, We Found That In Most Cases, The More Trusted Exchanges Were The Platform Where The Price Change First Occurs, And Subsequent Fluctuations Will Affect Other Trading Platforms.

Argument Method

1. Research Data Sources. Our Research Includes Trading Data For 61 Spot Exchanges From April 2019 To December 2019 (Second Quarter To Fourth Quarter), Recording Multiple Fiat And Stable Currencies Based On Bitcoin As The Base Currency (Including Usd, Euro, British Pound, Korean Won And Japanese Yen, And Usdt).
2. Research Object. Our Research Mainly Relies On The Confirmation Of The Price “volatility Event” (Resulting In A Price Change Of More Than $ 100 In 5.5 Minutes, Hereinafter Referred To As “volatility Event”) To Measure The Lead-lag Relationship Between Exchanges. In Addition, We Have Also Deleted Exchanges With A Small Trading Volume (Less Than 10 Transactions Within That 5.5 Minutes).
3. Correlation Measurement. We Performed A Correlation Analysis Between The Btc Price Of Each Exchange And Each “Volatility Event” And Excluded The Exchanges Whose Correlation With The Price Of Bitcoin Was Less Than 0.5 Because The Price Response Of These Exchanges Was Small Or Nothing At All.
4. Confirmation Of The Order Of The Price Response Before And After The Volatility Event. In Order To Determine The Lead And Lag Sequence Of Exchange Price Responses, We Performed A Cross-correlation Analysis On Each Combination. For A Given Two Exchanges, We Measure Them With A Time Difference Of 0.1 Seconds Until The Correlation Coefficient Between The Two Is Maximized. This Tells Us Not Only Which Price Is Leading Or Lagging, But Also How Long It Is Leading Or Lagging. We Also Performed A Visual Analysis Of This.
5. Fractions Of A Single. Based On A Single “Volatility Event”, We Create A Score For Each. This Score Is The Total Number Of Times That The Price Response Leads The Correlation Of An Exchange Portfolio Minus The Total Number Of Lags. This Score Will Give The Sequence Of Changes In Exchange Prices Under Each “Volatility Event”.
6. Statistics Results By Ranking. We Rank These Based On A Single “Volatility Event”. With The Highest Scores (Most Lead Times) Rank Highest. Which Exchanges Designate The Top 5 Exchanges With The Highest Scores As “Price Leaders”. Finally, We Count The Number Of Times A Single Exchange Appears As A Price Leader In All Volatility Events And Perform A Comprehensive Ranking.

In Conclusion

The Comprehensive Results Show That The Following 10 (Including Liquid, Huobi, Coinbase, And Hitbtc) Are The Trading Platforms Where Price Fluctuations First Occurred. And Among The Top 10 Exchanges That Frequently Cause The First Price Changes, 9 Exchanges Are On Our “Vetted List” Or “Watchlist”.

Note: Digital Asset Research’s Audit Framework For The Exchange Is Divided Into Two Parts: Quantitative Measurement And Qualitative Measurement. If An Exchange Passes These Two Audits, It Is Listed As The “Reviewed List”, And If It Passes Only One, It Is A Tracking List. Otherwise It Is “Failed List”.

In Summary, In Most Cases, The More Trustworthy Is The Platform Where The Price Changes First Occur, And Subsequent Fluctuations Will Affect Other Trading Platforms.

That Is, Price Formation In The Bitcoin Spot Market Tends To Occur On More Trusted Exchanges.

This Conclusion Alleviates To Some Extent Cryptocurrency  Investors’ Worries That Price Fluctuations In Smaller Are Even More Frenzied Than Normal, And Many Of These Exchanges Have Been Accused Of Artificially Trading Volumes.

It Is Worth Noting That After Preliminary Research, Bitmex’s Perpetual Contract Xbtusd May Also Have An Impact On Price Discovery.

By Adding Xbtusd To Our Previous Analysis, Which Exchanges Found That Bitmex Became A Price Leader More Frequently Than Any Other Except Binance. The Area Of ​​follow-up Derivatives Is Expected To Become The Next Research Direction.