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What is an efficient data structure to model order book?
The specifics depend on if you're implementing for equities (order-based) or futures (level-based). I recommend https://web.archive.org/web/20110219163448/http://howtohft.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/how-...
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Red Black Trees for Limit Order Book
Why do people suggest using red black trees/balanced binary trees for the levels in a limit order book?
Because people are unoriginal and keep referencing the same blog post.
Why are they ...
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Backtesting Market Making Strategy or Microstructure Strategy
This is a very difficult question.
First of all you should read Almgren's slides on the topic: Using a Simulator to Develop Execution Algorithms.
First you need to backtest your strategy against a "...
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Market impact, why square root?
I found this power point and this paper to be an excellent source on this topic.
Here is a quote from the paper:
A square-root singularity for small traded volumes is highly
non-trivial, and ...
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Orderbook Arbitrage
A public order book gives traders information not only on the current price of a security, but also the volume and structure of the entire supply and demand schedule.
Such information can be used for ...
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What is an efficient data structure to model order book?
I recently stumbled upon this question after needing to do this to do some real-time microstructure analysis and have taken a look at the various possible implementations. Here are some of the pros/...
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Why would an exchange choose one matching algorithm over another?
Among matching rule, do not forget "auction calls", in most markets, you have one at the open and one at the close.
To give you the main reasons to use one matching engine rather than another:
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How do better informed traders apply their advantage over the others?
Example from recent memory.
Right before New York open, Bloomberg posts an article saying country R's local news reported that R's government auditor said that country V has defaulted to R's loans to ...
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What is the price pressure?
If you want to learn more about price pressure, you should look after market impact of metaorders, which is a more adequate term.
Because of the microstructure (i.e. the mix of orderbboks dynamics, ...
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Orderbook Arbitrage
I am not sure Dark Pools (DP) have been created to avoid "market manipulation". They have been created by firms because they found an advantage to create them (see Market Microstructure in Practice, L ...
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What are some currently open problems in market microstructure
They are a lot of open problems in market microstructure. To have an idea of the whole landscape, have a look at Market Microstructure in Practice, 2nd Edition, by L and Laruelle.
I would split them ...
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What are modern algorithms for trade classification?
There are a few approaches to use trade prices and quotes to classify the aggressor as "buy" or "sell." Also, many of these methods have historically had to deal with ...
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How to use a realized kernel?
The use of kernels to estimate volatility using intraday data is "nothing more" than combining:
intraday volatility estimation
kernel smoothing
Thus you have to take care about the "usual pits" of ...
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Using market microstructure and exchange-specific knowledge to design trading strategies
I'll give examples of each: market microstructure, exchange protocols and connectivity.
Private fills
Probably the most well-known in the public domain is the idea of a "canary order". In ...
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What are the main market anomalies/inefficiencies detected in quantitative finance?
The best overview I have seen so far is this paper which lists 214 (!) factors (or anomalies if you like) on over one hundred (!) pages:
Harvey, Campbell R. and Liu, Yan and Zhu, Caroline, …and the ...
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Order Book Dynamics
The Queue Reactive Model (by Huang, L and Rosenbaum) is an improvement of what Cont and de Larrard (CL) did.
This model is capturing
the inflows and outflows in each queue given the current state of ...
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How to identify market makers in an orderbook?
You could also look at how each price level is made up.
For example how is the 18 lot on the bid price 0.0995 collated. Is it a 5 lots, 5 lots, 7 lots and 1 lot. You can do this on certain exchanges ...
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What good papers of short term (<30 seconds) volatility estimation
Very interesting question. I am not an expert on the subject, however, I was able to find a collection of papers on the subject that should get you started.
Here is a good and very informative paper ...
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What is an efficient data structure to model order book?
I do not know in which context you want to implement a matching engine (ME). But according to me the two nice challenges in this context are:
implement one in an FPGA
for simulation / fast replay ...
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Algorithm to detect the aggressor side of a trade
The most commonly-known approach to this is described in Inferring trade direction from intraday data (1991) by Lee and Ready. You will find that the non-trivial part has to do with classifying trades ...
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Latency and Delays across Exchanges
The round-trip latency from point A to a matching engine at point B can be thought of being comprised of two components:
$RTT_{total,A \rightarrow B} = RTT_{network\_transit,A \rightarrow B} + MPL_{...
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What are the proper ways to do order book downsampling?
Two chief reasons for subsampling or using a different event space are (i) computational or spatial tractability and (ii) denoising/signal extraction.
Sergei's response seems to focus on the first ...
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Why do stocks fall so quickly? Technical explanations
Stock market indices fall faster than they rise, in part, due to leveraged long investors. As individual stocks fall, investors must de-risk due to margin calls, and those margin calls may need to be ...
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Order book size limit
I am not aware on any rules preventing a too high number of entries at a limit price. Nevertheless you usually have controls for each trader id. A trader cannot have too many orders in the book or ...
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What are flickering orders?
A "flickering" order is one which is repeatedly submitted and cancelled (whether it's at the top of book or not).
The answer from @chollida mentions that "the goal typically is to either slow down ...
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Reference request: Quantitative approaches to market abuse detection
I can't help as much with public literature, but I did see a talk with a member of the FINRA data science team responsible for exactly this (event link below - perhaps you can track down the speaker).
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Market impact, why square root?
My understanding (devoid of any mathematical grounding) is as follows.
v = Turnover PER UNIT TIME
n = Shares you need to execute
therefore
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How can we estimate new stock price after a large purchase?
Let me try to answer: I have seen how equity trades are executed at the order book level. Let's say the price of the stock is 100 (last traded price). Let's say the order book is as follows:
Bids: ...
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How can we estimate new stock price after a large purchase?
There are a number of price impact models which seek to predict the bias induced on prices by trading. There are also issues with some of these models (which I will mention later).
Models
Probably the ...
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What does a electronic dealer track in a RFQ market?
Customers dont place limit orders or do they?
No, they don't. In an electronic RFQ market, the requesting participant (presumably the "customer" you are referring to) is generally not ...
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