1 Market Data Assignment MFIT 841: Digital Capital Markets Overview This is going to be hard. The data are large and confusing. Your job is to find a way to distill the important information into a simple and straightforward analysis. Good luck! Direction Students will analyze two datasets that include quotes and trades. Your job will be to: 1) 2) 3) Merge the quotes and trades datasets by symbol and datetime 4) Calculate bid-ask spreads, effective spreads, trading volume, minute-to-minute returns, volatility of minute-to-minute returns and any other variable that you think is important to describe market quality. Answer the following questions: – Are these stocks liquid or illiquid – Are all stocks the same – Why is the effective spread different than the bid-ask spread – Are these deep markets – Are spreads and depth correlated – – Can you predict future price movements using only this data You are going to have to dig deep, Google a lot and figure out how to analyse this data. I recommend using R or Python. Here are some resources that I use: 1) Install and initial steps to use a data scienc
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