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, financial markets face many ultrafast orders, yet a coherent theory of price change at time scales incomprehensible by humans … and only manageable by computers is still lacking. The theory presented in this paper attempts to fill this gap. The … outcome of such a theory is important for purposes of market stability, crisis avoidance, investment planning, risk management …
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This paper develops a model of the optimal strategies of high-frequency traders (HFTs) to rationalize their pinging activities. Pinging is defined as limit orders submitted inside the bid-ask spread that are cancelled shortly. The HFT in my model uses pinging to control his inventory or chase...
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The current research assesses the risks commonly attributed to the presence of HFT in the context of different market structures deployed by the U.S. exchanges. In particular, we find that, by design, the so-called “normal” exchanges have the lowest market quality, including the highest...
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We examine the relation between high frequency quotation and the behavior of stock prices between 2009 and 2011 for the full cross-section of securities in the U.S. On average, higher quotation activity is associated with price series that more closely resemble a random walk, and significantly...
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The majority of electronic markets worldwide employ limit order books, and the recently emerging exchanges for cryptocurrencies pose no exception. With this work, we empirically analyze whether commonly observed empirical properties from established limit order exchanges transfer to the...
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