scholarly journals Is High-Frequency Trading Inducing Changes in Market Microstructure and Dynamics?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Smith
Keyword(s):  
Market Microstructure ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
High Frequency Trading

scholarly journals High‑Frequency Trading in the Modern Market Microstructure: Opportunities and Threats

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
M. Zharikov
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Market Microstructure ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Financial Engineering ◽  
Market Design ◽  
High Frequency Trading ◽  
Optimal Trading ◽  
Trading Market ◽  
Long Run

The article covers some ideas about the research on high-frequency trading and financial market design. The topic is time-relevant because today there exists a need to convince traders that there is a simple structural floor in the way that the financial markets are designed. The article reveals the significance of trading on the floor that the foremost fundamental constraint is limited time. The author proves that time on the financial market feels, to some extent, infinite when someone counts it in millions of seconds, but time is nevertheless finite. The author then gets into the actual research on high-frequency trading in the financial market design. The motivation for this project is to analyse activity among high-frequency trading firms by which investments of substantial sums of money are understood as economically trivial speed improvements. The theoretical significance of the research’s outcomes lies in outlaying the systemic approach to dealing with stochastic control problems in the context of financial engineering. The practical relevance of the paper lies in the mechanism that allows solving problems surrounding optimal trading, market microstructure, high-frequency trading, etc. The article concludes by talking about the issues in the modern electronic markets and by giving lessons to dealing with them in the long run.

High-Frequency Financial Econometrics

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yacine Aït-Sahalia ◽  
Jean Jacod
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Financial Econometrics ◽  
Trading Strategies ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Jump Processes ◽  
High Frequency Trading ◽  
Microstructure Noise ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Mathematical Foundations

High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial data has grown exponentially. This growth has been driven by the increasing availability of such data, the technological advancements that make high-frequency trading strategies possible, and the need of practitioners to analyze these data. This comprehensive book introduces readers to these emerging methods and tools of analysis. The book covers the mathematical foundations of stochastic processes, describes the primary characteristics of high-frequency financial data, and presents the asymptotic concepts that their analysis relies on. It also deals with estimation of the volatility portion of the model, including methods that are robust to market microstructure noise, and address estimation and testing questions involving the jump part of the model. As the book demonstrates, the practical importance and relevance of jumps in financial data are universally recognized, but only recently have econometric methods become available to rigorously analyze jump processes. The book approaches high-frequency econometrics with a distinct focus on the financial side of matters while maintaining technical rigor, which makes this book invaluable to researchers and practitioners alike.

High-Frequency Trading

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gomber ◽  
Björn Arndt ◽  
Marco Lutat ◽  
Tim Elko Uhle
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
High Frequency Trading
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