We examine whether speed is an important characteristic of traders who anticipate local price trends. These anticipatory participants correctly trade prior to the overall market and systematically act before other participants. They use manual and algorithmic order entry methods, but most are...

We model the decision to exhaust depth by high speed traders, which either flips the best bid or ask quote to the opposite side or widens the spread. Such events are common and often revert to the previous best quote levels. Consistent with the model, such quote flipping results in large trade...