This paper provides evidence that informed traders dominate the response of limit-order submissions to shocks in a pure limit-order market. In the market we study, informed traders are highly sensitive to spreads, volatility, momentum and depth. By contrast, uninformed traders are relatively...

The financial industry's leading independent research firm's forward-looking assessment into high frequency trading. Once regarded as a United States-focused trend, today, high frequency trading is gaining momentum around the world. Yet, while high frequency trading continues to be one of the...

"Trading on Target explains the rites of passages that traders pass through in order to develop a high level of mastery. Most aspiring traders stumble or become discouraged at some point in the process. Most don't have a good overview of what success requires and, as result, are unprepared for...

Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments with only human traders. Today markets are substantially determined by algorithmic traders. Here we use a laboratory experiment to measure changes of human trading behavior if...