EvoMarket: A High-Fidelity and Scalable Financial Market Simulator

TL;DR

EvoMarket is a scalable, high-fidelity financial market simulator capable of multi-asset, cross-day experiments, integrating institutional mechanisms and an innovative self-calibration method for microstructure accuracy.

Contribution

The paper introduces EvoMarket, a novel multi-agent market simulator with high fidelity, scalability, and an in-run calibration mechanism, surpassing prior single-asset or less detailed simulators.

Findings

Close replay alignment over five trading days.

Fidelity improvements via in-run calibration.

Effective cross-asset linkage and intervention analysis.

Abstract

High-fidelity, scalable market simulation is a key instrument for mechanism evaluation, stress testing, and counterfactual policy analysis. Yet existing simulators rarely achieve \emph{mechanism fidelity} beyond single-asset intraday settings, \emph{microstructure fidelity} against historical limit order books (LOB), and \emph{computational tractability} at market scale in a single system. This paper presents \textit{EvoMarket}, a discrete-event, multi-agent financial market simulator designed for intervention-oriented experiments in multi-asset and cross-day environments. EvoMarket couples a high-throughput execution core (optimized LOB data structures, hierarchical scheduling under propagation delays, and asynchronous per-asset matching) with explicit institutional mechanisms (market calendars, opening call auctions, price limits, and T+1 settlement). To avoid expensive black-box calibration, EvoMarket introduces an Oracle-guided in-run self-calibration mechanism that interprets microstructure discrepancy as missing order flow and synthesizes corrective orders at recording checkpoints. Experiments on China A-share order-flow and LOB data show close replay alignment over five trading days, fidelity gains from budgeted in-run calibration across depth levels, broad agent order-space coverage, and scalable performance under increasing input order rates and market breadth. We further demonstrate cross-asset linkage and event-study style intervention evaluation that produces structured dependence and interpretable event-time responses.