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Volatility-Aware Extreme Event Detection in High-Frequency Financial Markets
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摘要
Predicting extreme price movements in high-frequency financial markets is a challenging task due to non-stationarity, heavy-tailed return distributions, and severe class imbalance. In particular, rare but impactful events are often difficult to detect using conventional modeling approaches, which typically treat extreme movements as isolated observations. This study proposes a volatility-aware approach for extreme event detection using high-frequency Bitcoin limit order book (LOB) data. Motivated by empirical evidence of volatility clustering, the target formulation is extended to incorporate both large future returns and high-volatility regimes. This redefinition increases the proportion of informative samples and aligns the learning objective with the underlying market dynamics. Using a tree-based model (XGBoost) with time-series cross-validation and imbalance-aware evaluation, the proposed method achieves a Precision-Recall AUC of approximately 0.40, significantly outperforming the baseline formulation with a PR-AUC of around 0.06. This represents more than a sixfold improvement in detecting rare events. The results highlight that target design plays a critical role in financial machine learning, often exceeding the impact of model complexity. By incorporating volatility structure into the labeling process, the proposed approach provides a more effective and realistic framework for extreme event detection in high-frequency cryptocurrency markets.
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Volatility-Aware Extreme Event Detection in High-Frequency Financial Markets
Predicting extreme price movements in high-frequency financial markets is a challenging task due to non-stationarity, heavy-tailed return distributions, and severe class imbalance. In particular, rare but impactful events are often difficult to detect using conventional modeling approaches, which typically treat extreme movements as isolated observations. This study proposes a volatility-aware approach for extreme event detection using high-frequency Bitcoin limit order book (LOB) data. Motivated by empirical evidence of volatility clustering, the target formulation is extended to incorporate both large future returns and high-volatility regimes. This redefinition increases the proportion of informative samples and aligns the learning objective with the underlying market dynamics. Using a tree-based model (XGBoost) with time-series cross-validation and imbalance-aware evaluation, the proposed method achieves a Precision-Recall AUC of approximately 0.40, significantly outperforming the baseline formulation with a PR-AUC of around 0.06. This represents more than a sixfold improvement in detecting rare events. The results highlight that target design plays a critical role in financial machine learning, often exceeding the impact of model complexity. By incorporating volatility structure into the labeling process, the proposed approach provides a more effective and realistic framework for extreme event detection in high-frequency cryptocurrency markets.
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