Technological innovations currently alter the traditional value chain in securities trading. Investment companies that used to buy trading services from their brokers are now enabled by technology to emulate core competencies of their brokers themselves. To investigate the adoption decision...

Colocation services offered by stock exchanges enable market participants to achieve execution costs for large orders that are substantially lower and less sensitive to transacting against high-frequency traders. However, these benefits manifest only for orders executed on the colocated brokers'...

We examine the effect of high frequency trading on market quality from theperspective of a limit order trader. By competing with slower limit order traders, highfrequency traders (HFT) impose a welfare externality by crowding out slower non-HFTlimit orders. The order book imbalance immediately...

Liquidity suppliers lean against the wind. We analyze whether high-frequency traders (HFTs) lean against large institutional orders that execute through a series of child orders. The alternative is HFTs trading "with the wind," that is, in the same direction. We find that HFTs initially lean...

In this research, we test whether common trading oscillators can outperform the buy-and-hold strategy (B&H) using six popular ETFs for the period of the last 20 years. We use the original setups of those oscillators and also other setups or oscillators combinations in order to achieve the best...

This paper investigates the information content present in the quotes in an order driven market without the presence of designated market makers. A representation is proposed that recognises the ability of participants in such markets to observe market events and calibrate their quoting...