High Frequency Trading and Listed Companies - The Shrinking Role of Disclosure

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Ciallella
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 933-964
Author(s):  
Benjamin Clapham ◽  
Martin Haferkorn ◽  
Kai Zimmermann

2015 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil Dayri ◽  
Mathieu Rosenbaum

In this work, we provide a framework linking microstructural properties of an asset to the tick value of the exchange. In particular, we bring to light a quantity, referred to as implicit spread, playing the role of spread for large tick assets, for which the effective spread is almost always equal to one tick. The relevance of this new parameter is shown both empirically and theoretically. This implicit spread allows us to quantify the tick sizes of large tick assets and to define a notion of optimal tick size. Moreover, our results open the possibility of forecasting the behavior of relevant market quantities after a change in the tick value and to give a way to modify it in order to reach an optimal tick size. Thus, we provide a crucial tool for regulators and trading platforms in the context of high frequency trading.


2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250022 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT A. JARROW ◽  
PHILIP PROTTER

This paper shows that high frequency trading may play a dysfunctional role in financial markets. Contrary to arbitrageurs who make financial markets more efficient by taking advantage of and thereby eliminating mispricings, high frequency traders can create a mispricing that they unknowingly exploit to the disadvantage of ordinary investors. This mispricing is generated by the collective and independent actions of high frequency traders, coordinated via the observation of a common signal.


2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald MacKenzie

This article contains the first detailed historical study of one of the new high-frequency trading (HFT) firms that have transformed many of the world’s financial markets. The study, of Automated Trading Desk (ATD), one of the earliest and most important such firms, focuses on how ATD’s algorithms predicted share price changes. The article argues that political-economic struggles are integral to the existence of some of the ‘pockets’ of predictable structure in the otherwise random movements of prices, to the availability of the data that allow algorithms to identify these pockets, and to the capacity of algorithms to use these predictions to trade profitably. The article also examines the role of HFT algorithms such as ATD’s in the epochal, fiercely contested shift in US share trading from ‘fixed-role’ markets towards ‘all-to-all’ markets.


Author(s):  
Timothy Baikie ◽  
Tracey Stern ◽  
Susan Greenglass ◽  
Maureen Jensen

This chapter submits that a regulator’s raison d’être is not simply to react to market issues but to be proactive and to follow and to understand the changes and the business decisions in the market. Regulators must be able to change and foster a responsive regulatory climate that allows innovation to occur, while ensuring that core principles such as investor protection are preserved and that the impact of any change is monitored. To that end, the chapter highlights the role of the Ontario Securities Commission in the Canadian regulatory landscape, and details how it has addressed the multitude of challenges posed by recent developments in Canadian capital markets, including the growth in dark liquidity and the emergence of high frequency trading.


2016 ◽  
pp. 55-94
Author(s):  
Pier Luigi Marchini ◽  
Carlotta D'Este

The reporting of comprehensive income is becoming increasingly important. After the introduction of Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) reporting, as required by the 2007 IAS 1-revised, the IASB is currently seeking inputs from investors on the usefulness of unrealized gains and losses and on the role of comprehensive income. This circumstance is of particular relevance in code law countries, as local pre-IFRS accounting models influence financial statement preparers and users. This study aims at investigating the role played by unrealized gains and losses reporting on users' decision process, by examining the impact of OCI on the Italian listed companies RoE ratio and by surveying a sample of financial analysts, also content analysing their formal reports. The results show that the reporting of comprehensive income does not affect the financial statement users' decision process, although it statistically affects Italian listed entities' performance.


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