This paper examines unique data on dark pool activity for a large cross-section of US stocks in 2009. Dark pool activity is concentrated in liquid stocks. Nasdaq (AMEX) stocks have significantly higher (lower) dark pool activity than NYSE stocks controlling for liquidity. For a given stock, dark...

Using a market model and principal component analysis, we investigate the existence of common effects in order imbalance in the Borsa Istanbul's option market. Accordingly, we find the presence of commonality in order imbalance for call options and an even more dominant presence in put options....

We examine the soundness of high-frequency trading (HFT) proxies that are widely defined on the limit order book (LOB) information. We use a unique TRTH (Thomson Reuters Tick History) millisecond time-stamped intraday trades and quotes dataset enriched with 10 levels of LOB depth messages for...

I consider limit order book events that are likely to contribute to price discovery in the foreign exchange market, specifically, limit orders and transactions (market orders). The variance decomposition shows that improving orders and worsening cancels, both limit order events, substantially...

This paper proposes a set of novel pricing factors for currency returns that are motivated by microstructure models. In so doing, we bring two strands of the exchange rate literature, namely market-microstructure and risk-based models, closer together. Our novel factors use order flow data to...

We present a learning algorithm based on simulation and neural networks to solve a stochastic optimal control problem with a large state space using dynamic programming. The problem consists in liquidating a given number of shares of a stock through a limit order book (LOB). The state space...

The estimation of the volatility with high-frequency data is plagued by the presence of microstructure noise, which leads to biased measures. Alternative estimators have been developed and tested either on specific structures of the noise or by the speed of convergence to their asymptotic...

Orders in major electronic stock markets are executed through centralised limit order books (LOBs). The availability of historical data have led to extensive research modelling LOBs. Better understanding the dynamics of LOBs and building simulators as a framework for controlled experiments, when...