chapter 11 order anticipators. front runners, sentiment-oriented technical traders, squeezers,...
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Chapter 11
Order Anticipators
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Order Anticipators
Front runners, Sentiment-oriented technical traders, Squeezers, Manipulation of stop orders
They do not make prices more informative or markets more liquid.
Tick size is important. They are all parasitic traders.
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Front Runners Front running aggressive traders
• Profit from the price impact of aggressive traders. Discuss example.
• Illegal when they violate a confidential brokerage relationship.
Front running passive traders• Quote matching or penny jumping. Discuss
example.• Extract option values of the standing orders.
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Front Running and Market Efficiency Make prices less informative when they
front run uninformed traders. Make prices more informative when they
front run informed traders. Long-run effect of informed traders may be
to make market prices less informative!• Why? Because traders invest less in
information due to smaller profits.
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Front Running and Liquidity
Front runners make markets less liquid. They benefit the traders with whom they
trade when they improve prices to step in front of other traders.
They do so at the expense of the traders they front run. (Extracting option values)
Some traders become less aggressive when confronted with front runners.
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Sentiment-Oriented Technical Traders They try to predict the trades that
uninformed traders will decide to make. They profit from the price impact of
uninformed trades. Their trading make market prices less
informative because they try to trade before uninformed traders.
They make markets less liquid.
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Squeezers
They try to monopolize one side of a market so that anyone who must liquidate a position on the other side must trade with them.
Make prices less informative. Illegal in the US.
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Manipulation of Stop Orders
“Gunning the market” Push prices up or down to activate stop
orders. Stop orders then accelerate those price
changes. They close their positions at a profit by
trading with the stop orders! Use example. Illegal in the US. But almost impossible to
enforce.