Algorithmic trading

About: Algorithmic trading is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6718 publications have been published within this topic receiving 162209 citations. The topic is also known as: algotrading & Algorithmic trading.

Trading program for interacting with market programs on a platform

Abstract: A trading process having a trading methodology selected by a user is operative to interact with market processes having respective market methodologies. The trading process and the market processes are supported on a platform that also supports platform processes for providing services to the trading processes and market processes. The trading processes interact with each other and with external markets through the market processes.

Does Futures Trading Reduce Price Fluctuations in the Cash Markets

Abstract: One of the recurring arguments made against futures markets is that, by encouraging or facilitating speculation, they give rise to price instability. This argument, in various versions, has been made throughout past Congressional hearings on onion and potato futures. The theoretical literature available on the subject of futures trading and price stability is rather scanty and inconclusive. Most of the evidence has been gathered on onion and potato prices. It suggests that: a) the seasonal price range is lower with a futures market because of speculative support at harvest time; b) sharp adjustments at the end of a marketing season are diminished under futures trading because they have been better anticipated; and c) year-to-year price fluctuations are reduced under futures trading because of the existence of the futures market as a reliable guide to production planning. See Roger Gray, and Holbrook Working (1958, 1960, 1963).

Method and system for multi-path routing of electronic orders for securities

Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting, in a broker-dealer system for automated trading of securities, a path for sending an order for securities to a terminus market, in which the broker-dealer system includes at least one port, the port being coupled through at least one path to at least one terminus market, wherein each path includes at least one direct link between a port and a market system and optionally one or more additional links between the said market system and other market systems, each path having a first terminus at a port and a second terminus at a terminus market, terminus markets being markets to which orders for securities are sent by the broker-dealer system.

The market liquidity of DIAMONDS, Q's, and their underlying stocks

Abstract: We investigate the market liquidity effects of the introduction of index-tracking stocks for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIAMONDS) and the NASDAQ 100 index (Q's). Our main finding is liquidity of the underlying DJIA 30 index stocks improves after the introduction of the exchange-traded fund, largely because of a decline in the cost of informed trading. Further, we find the DIAMONDS has significantly lower liquidity costs over the first 50 days of trading as compared to the portfolio of its component stocks, again primarily because of lower adverse selection costs. Finally, we find weaker but qualitatively similar results for the Q's.