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Why would a trader quickly flicker an order immediately preceding a tick away?
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Assume the inside market is $15.15 \times 15.16$ and there is a very large bid order imbalance. For example, 30,000 shares bid across 100+ orders, 200 shares offered across 1 order; ...
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With there being such a high demand for electronic trading or just trading in general why are market hours so limited?
I am curious why a lot of market hours are something like 9 to 3 or 9 to 4 pm when there is such demand and so many prop shops and more out there. I know certain markets are continuous trading but a ...
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What is a good source to learn the different nuances of electronic orders and their nature?
Today I was speaking with someone involved in high frequency trading. They were mentioning hidden orders, queue positions (which can be lost in the orderbook based on certain order modifications), ...