We study the role of various trader types in providing liquidity in spot and futures markets based on data from the National Stock Exchange of India for a single large stock. During normal times, short-term traders who carry little inventory overnight are the primary liquidity providers in both...

Why not set up some public-service robot traders to counteract the behavior of traders when it snowballs into extreme moves? I show a blueprint of how this can be accomplished taking advantage of the theory of complex systems.