Modeling market makers' quoting strategies to understand price impact.
problem Understanding how price impact arises from market makers' quoting strategies.
method Modeling market making as a dynamic auction using Stochastic Differential Games and finding Nash Equilibrium.
result The price impact function derived from market makers' strategies matches the Almgren-Chriss model.
Study liquidity impact on spread option pricing.
problem Imperfect liquidity in stock markets affects option pricing.
method Developed partial-impact and full-impact models to analyze European spread options.
result Full impact model leads to higher option prices due to increased stock buying.
New data improves market impact estimation methods.
problem Improving efficiency of market impact estimation.
method Investigates the use of price trajectory data for market impact estimation.
result Estimation methods using early trade prices outperform established methods asymptotically.
Modeling option market making with hedging-induced price impact.
problem Tackles the challenge of market making in options markets with price impact.
method Models option order flow using Cox processes and studies the dynamics of inventory and price under hedging-induced impact.
result Establishes the well-posedness of the mixed control problem involving quoting and hedging.
Develops SPT with price impact, deriving formulas for wealth and arbitrage conditions.
problem Tackles price impact in high-dimensional markets.
method Incorporates nonlinear price impact and impact decay models.
result Derives master formula for trading strategies and wealth dynamics.
We introduce a multivariate Hawkes process that accounts for the dynamics of market prices through the impact of market order arrivals at microstructural level. Our model is a point process mainly characterized by 4 kernels associated with respectively the trade arrival self-excitation, the price changes mean reversion…
Measures price impact in order-driven markets without relying on averages.
problem Measuring price impact in order-driven markets without relying on averages.
method Modeling the limit order book using state-dependent Hawkes processes and defining price impact profile as a function of the compensator of a stochastic process.
result The clustering of sell child orders has a bigger impact on price than their sizes.
PRIME models cryptocurrency exchange market impact.
problem Understanding and predicting market impact in cryptocurrency exchanges.
method Developed a multi-agent simulation to model market impact.
result Allows better estimation of market slippage and knock-on consequences.
Study solves utility maximization in a transient price impact market.
problem Utility maximization in a market with transient price impact.
method Developed a discrete-time model and removed market depth and resilience process restrictions.
result Solved the utility maximization problem without convexity of attainable portfolio values.
The price impact for a single trade is estimated by the immediate response on an event time scale, i.e., the immediate change of midpoint prices before and after a trade. We work out the price impacts across a correlated financial market. We quantify the asymmetries of the distributions and of the market structures of …
Bayesian framework explains price formation with learning and market impact.
problem Understanding how prices form in markets with informed participants.
method Introduces a Bayesian model for updating priors on efficient prices.
result Exponential intensities for aggressive order arrivals are a natural outcome.
Theory of price impact on bond term structure.
problem Understanding price impact in interest rate markets.
method Formulated instantaneous and transient price impact on bonds with different maturities, connecting to no-arbitrage theory.
result Price impact can be embedded in the pricing measure and no-arbitrage preserved.
The asymmetric price impact between the institutional purchases and sales of 32 liquid stocks in Chinese stock markets in year 2003 is carefully studied. We analyze the price impact in both drawup and drawdown trends with consecutive positive and negative daily price changes, and test the dependence of the price impact…
Study analyzes price response and spread impact in foreign exchange markets.
problem Understanding deviations from Markovian behavior in foreign exchange markets.
method Detailed large-scale data analysis of price response functions for different years and time scales, using pip bid-ask spread definition.
result Large pip spreads significantly impact price response in foreign exchange markets.
Estimates cross-impact on derivatives markets using E-Mini futures and options.
problem Empirical estimation of cross-impact on complex financial instruments like derivatives.
method Modeling derivatives prices as a function of stochastic factors and trades on both factors and derivatives.
result Simple framework successfully captures cross-impact on derivatives markets.
Our goal in this paper is to study the market impact in a market in which the order flow is autocorrelated. We build a model which explains qualitatively and quantitatively the empirical facts observed so far concerning market impact. We define different notions of market impact, and show how they lead to the different…
The paper studies price impacts in asset liquidation markets.
problem Understanding price impacts in asset liquidation markets.
method Equilibrium formulation and analysis of price impacts.
result Existence and uniqueness of clearing prices for portfolio liquidation.
This paper studies the optimal investment problem with random endowment in an inventory-based price impact model with competitive market makers. Our goal is to analyze how price impact affects optimal policies, as well as both pricing rules and demand schedules for contingent claims. For exponential market makers prefe…
New model explains why metaorder impact estimation is hard with public data.
problem Difficulty in estimating metaorder impact using public market data.
method Proposed a modified Transient Impact Model to better describe order flow.
result Model shows market impact can be permanent under certain conditions.
Model quantifies market price of trading liquidity risk and market depth.
problem Analyzing the market price of trading liquidity risk and market depth.
method Introduced a framework to analyze market price of liquidity risk, derived inhomogeneous Bernoulli ODE, obtained closed form solutions.
result Market depth encapsulates the market price of liquidity risk.
Optimizes bidding in hourly and quarter-hourly electricity markets to reduce price impact.
problem Maximizing profit in two consecutive electricity markets with market impact and transaction costs.
method Examined multiple price scenarios, estimated market impact, used trading strategies, provided theoretical results.
result Minimizing price impact is more profitable than maximizing arbitrage in the German EPEX market.
The study explains the concavity of price impact in markets.
problem The asymptotic concavity of price impact in meta-orders.
method A model with linear local price impact and co-directional trades.
result Volumes at best bid and ask prices favor the executor.
The paper uncovers two key laws of market impact influenced by volume and participation rate.
problem Understanding the roles of volume and participation rate in market price response.
method Extending the no arbitrage approach to include sophisticated market participants, deriving price dynamics from order flow dynamics.
result Recovery of two square root laws governing market impact.
Two models predict similar high-frequency price dynamics but differ in low-frequency impact strength.
problem Understanding the relationship between market prices and fundamental information.
method Comparing a microfounded linear model with a data-driven model at high and low frequencies.
result Both models predict similar high-frequency price dynamics but differ in low-frequency impact strength.
We present a study of price impact in the over-the-counter credit index market, where no limit order book is used. Contracts are traded via dealers, that compete for the orders of clients. Despite this distinct microstructure, we successfully apply the propagator technique to estimate the price impact of individual tra…
Study shows price impact increases with order-flow imbalance, using machine learning.
problem Understanding price impact in financial markets.
method Empirical investigation using Kyle's model and machine learning.
result Machine learning models can predict market impact more accurately than traditional methods.
Bayesian theory explains market impact of large trades.
problem Reduction of price impact from large trades.
method Bayesian approach incorporating all trade information.
result Recovery of market impact laws including square-root and linear regimes.
This paper investigates the market impact of passive orders.
problem Understanding the market impact of passive orders executed through limit orders.
method Developed a microstructure model linking liquidity dynamics and price moves, replacing the constant information content assumption with a function dependent on available volume.
result Derived useful approximations for market impact curves, leading to closed-form formulas.
Study analyzes market equilibrium returns with price impact and transaction costs.
problem Modeling equilibrium returns in markets with strategic order placement and transaction costs.
method Analyzes frictionless and transaction-cost markets, characterizes Nash equilibrium via FBSDEs.
result Equilibrium returns are affected by transaction costs, especially with noise traders.
Study shows how adaptive market agents can lead to persistent overpricing in financial markets.
problem Persistent overpricing in financial markets by adaptive market agents.
method Analyzes a repeated game between market maker and market taker, decomposes the game into competitive and collaborative components, and uses projected stochastic gradient ascent.
result Decentralized learning by adaptive market agents can lead to persistent overpricing in financial markets.
The study confirms that market volatility can be explained by correlated metaorders impacting prices in a square-root fashion.
problem Explaining market volatility using metaorders and their impact.
method Generated synthetic market data and analyzed the correlation between order flow and returns.
result The square-root law of market impact is confirmed and can be measured from anonymized trade data.
We develop a theory for the market impact of large trading orders, which we call metaorders because they are typically split into small pieces and executed incrementally. Market impact is empirically observed to be a concave function of metaorder size, i.e., the impact per share of large metaorders is smaller than that…
Optimal trading strategy under market resistance and concave price impact model.
problem Optimal trading in a market with endogenous resistance and concave price impact.
method Modeling market resistance, deriving a stochastic Fredholm equation, proving existence and uniqueness, proposing an iterative scheme.
result Existence and uniqueness of optimal control under certain conditions, exponential convergence of iterative scheme.
Develops a framework for valuing Asian options with market impact.
problem Valuation of Asian options under price impact.
method Discrete-time quote-level model, continuous-time limits, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, CRR-style tree-based Bellman algorithm.
result Endogenous trading volumes feed into prices and costs, leading to nontrivial bid-ask spreads.
Investors' strategies in a market influenced by price impact are analyzed, showing aggressive behavior when impact exceeds a critical point.
problem Strategic interaction and Nash equilibria of investors in a financial market with price impact.
method Analysis of Nash equilibria for relative investors with CRRA and CARA utility functions in a Brownian motion-driven market, considering both linear and non-linear price impacts.
result Investors' aggressive behavior is observed when price impact exceeds a critical parameter.
Investment strategies in financial markets can lead to instability due to market impacts.
problem Market impacts make it impossible for investors to accurately optimize their strategies.
method Built an agent-based model with technical analysis strategy agents to investigate optimization instability.
result Investment strategies' parameters never converged but continued to change, leading to unstable market price evolution.
Study shows integrating OFI from multiple levels improves price impact explanation but not forecasting.
problem Explaining and forecasting price movements in equity markets using OFI.
method Systematic approach to combine OFIs from multiple levels into an integrated variable, testing multi-asset models with and without cross-impact terms.
result Lagged cross-asset OFIs improve future return forecasting but not contemporaneous price impact.
Silkswap models stablecoin trading with minimal price impact.
problem Efficient trading of fiat-pegged stablecoins with minimal price impact.
method Silkswap uses an invariant price impact curve for asymmetric trading, derived from a hybrid function.
result Silkswap outperforms Curve Finance in price impact for stablecoin trading.
We present a perturbation theory of the market impact based on an extension of the framework proposed by [Loeper, 2018] -- originally based on [Liu and Yong, 2005] -- in which we consider only local linear market impact. We study the execution process of hedging derivatives and show how these hedging metaorders can exp…
Model predicts and optimizes trading of electricity price spreads across multiple zones.
problem Forecasting and optimizing day-ahead versus real-time price spreads in U.S. electricity markets.
method Unified statistical model for positive and negative spikes, structural price impact model based on bid stacks.
result Optimal trading strategy improves risk-return profile and highlights market heterogeneity.
Coronavirus impacts oil prices through volatility and direct effects.
problem Impact of coronavirus on oil prices and volatility.
method ARDL estimation controlling for financial volatility and US economic policy uncertainty.
result COVID-19 daily infections have a negative long-term impact on oil prices.
The paper applies thermodynamics to financial markets to prove no-arbitrage constraints.
problem No arbitrage in financial markets under price impact.
method Stochastic thermodynamics applied to financial trading cycles.
result Proves any round-trip trading strategy yields non-positive expected profit.
By incorporating market impact and asymmetric sensitivity into the evolutionary minority game, we study the coevolutionary dynamics of stock prices and investment strategies in financial markets. Both the stock price movement and the investors' global behavior are found to be closely related to the phase region they fa…
Optimizes trading in markets with unpredictable price impacts.
problem Optimizing trading strategies in markets with stochastic price impacts.
method Singular perturbation methods to approximate optimal control problem.
result Proves approximations are accurate to specified order using sub- and super-solutions.
In a recent Nature paper, Gabaix et al. \cite{Gabaix03} presented a theory to explain the power law tail of price fluctuations. The main points of their theory are that volume fluctuations, which have a power law tail with exponent roughly -1.5, are modulated by the average market impact function, which describes the r…
We present a thorough empirical analysis of market impact on the Bitcoin/USD exchange market using a complete dataset that allows us to reconstruct more than one million metaorders. We empirically confirm the "square-root law'' for market impact, which holds on four decades in spite of the quasi-absence of statistical …
Modeling price impacts and trading signals for optimal execution and speculation.
problem Optimal execution and speculation in markets with trade signals.
method Price impact model driven by order flow, stochastic price impact, Meyer-σ-fields signal process, Marcus-type SDEs. result Derivation and numerical solution of HJB equation for optimal execution, enhanced speculative strategies.
Proposes a new model to measure trade impact and information content in fluctuating markets.
problem Measuring price impact and information content of trades in a time-varying market setting.
method Non-linear observation-driven model for dynamically estimating market impact and information content.
result Market impact shows intraday patterns with large fluctuations, some of which are exogenous.