Market microstructure is generally speaking the way markets are organized at the impact of there structure on the price formation process.
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Has high frequency trading (HFT) been a net benefit or cost to society?
Various studies have demonstrated the very large and growing influence of high frequency trading (HFT) on the markets. HFT firms are clearly making a great deal of money from somewhere, and it stands ...
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References for developing an automated trading system?
I am looking for references on the architecture of automated trading systems and the trading algorithms behind them. I am more interested in system development than analysis. A couple of books I ...
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Quantitative before/after or financial engineering studies of a bid or ask tax?
Has anyone in the quantitative finance or financial engineering community studied the effects of a bid or ask tax with actual or simulated data?
If so, what were the quantitative results or ...
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Analyzing tick data
What are some of the commonly used techniques to analyze tick data?
I am looking at tick data to see how the quotes/ mid-price evolves due to certain events in the market. Since tick data is ...
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What is an efficient data structure to model order book?
What is an efficient data structure to model order book of prices and quantities to ensure:
constant look up
iteration in order of prices
retrieving best bid and ask in constant time
fast quantity ...
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Recover full tick data from missing tick data
Due to some economics/regime problem, I can only have access to non full-tick data from an exchange.
To make the problem precise, a full tick data $X$ is a series of $(t_i,p_i,v_i)$ for $0 \leq i ...
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how do we estimate position of our order in order book?
how would you estimate your order in the exchange order book? The order of order events and acks is not deterministic or guaranteed. How could you write an algo to estimate accurately your position in ...
