2024/06/25 by Ananya Krishnan, Krishnan, Ananya, M. Pollack +3
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Applications (stat.AP) #Banking stability, regulation, efficiency #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Financial Markets and Investment Strategies #Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.17198
openalex publication_date 2024/06/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this project, we investigate the accuracy of forecasting intraday and daily trading volume of the exchange-traded fund SPY. The ability to forecast volume over varying time intervals with high accuracy is a critical element to many trading strategies. After performing exploratory data analysis on intraday and daily SPY data we identify three methods for our analysis: ARIMA and ARIMAX models, with or without seasonality, as well as a Frequency Domain Process Representation. To evaluate predictive power of our models, we use mean squared error, mean absolute percentage error, and volume weighted average price (VWAP) tracking error. All models for both intraday and daily data output strong VWAP predictions in comparison to the VWAP estimates produced by naive baseline methodologies. In both cases volume is most accurately forecasted using ARIMA models with exogenous variables in the form of technical indicators, with intraday incorporating a seasonal component and daily not.