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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), ...
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Control for bid/ask bounce in high-frequency trade data?
The bid-ask bounce is the bouncing of trade prices between the bid and ask sides of the market. It introduces a systematic bias to the data which can cause serious problems in analysis.
What methods ...
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Order submission strategies of a rational market maker?
Consider a market maker that has decided to try to make a round-trip trade in stock A in order to capture the bid-ask spread.
Assume furthermore that he has no current inventory in the stock A. To ...
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What is the most effective way of determining & measuring the level of HFT activity in a stock in (close to) real time?
On a security by security basis, I want to be able to quantify the level of HFT activity (and later institutional & retail activity). Is it higher than it normally is? How much so?
What would you ...
