Market fragmentation : monitoring and history -- Smart order routing -- Tick size; -- Information seeking and price discovery -- Dark pools and broker crossing networks -- Liquidity : the viewpoint of trading venues -- The agenda of high frequency traders -- The link between fragmentation and...

<i>Market Microstructure in Practice</i> comments on the consequences of Reg NMS and MiFID on market microstructure. It covers changes in market design, electronic trading, and investor and trader behaviors. The emergence of high frequency trading and critical events like the ¡°Flash Crash¡± of...

Considering that a trader or a trading algorithm interacting with markets during continuous auctions can be modeled by an iterating procedure adjusting the price at which he posts orders at a given rhythm, this paper proposes a procedure minimizing his costs. We prove the a.s. convergence of the...

Evolutions of the trading landscape lead to the capability to exchange the same financial instrument on different venues. Because of liquidity issues, the trading firms split large orders across several trading destinations to optimize their execution. To solve this problem we devised two...

Evolutions of the trading landscape lead to the capability to exchange the same financial instrument on different venues. Because of liquidity issues, the trading firms split large orders across several trading destinations to optimize their execution. To solve this problem we devised two...

Key Features:Interdisciplinary comments on market microstructure (covering economy, quantitative finance, and econophysics)Covers a very large spectrum of phenomenon: high frequency trading, liquidity monitoring, the Flash Crash, systemic risk, fragmentation, Smart Order Routing, trade...