Fast trading and fragmentation of volume make equity markets complex, leading retail and institutional investors to demand sophisticated brokerage services. In a sample of stock transactions in Swedish large-cap firms, we find that brokers who show high trading sophistication when trading their...

This is the internet appendix for "How Aggressive are High-Frequency Traders". The paper "How Aggressive are High-Frequency Traders" to which these Appendices apply is available at the following URL: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326446" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326446

We study order aggressiveness of market-making high-frequency traders (HFTs), opportunistic HFTs, and non-HFTs. We find that market-making HFTs follow their own group's previous order submissions more than they follow other traders' orders. Opportunistic HFTs and non-HFTs tend to split market...