In this paper, we investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders in facilitating liquidity in a limit order market. We find that they rarely use liquidity removing market orders. Their ability to affect the bid-ask spread with order cancellation rates is maximum among three mutually...

We investigate the relative roles of limit orders from proprietary algorithmic traders (PAT) and agency algorithmic traders (AAT) in the discovery of security prices in National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. Our results suggest that AAT contributes more to price discovery compared to PAT. This...

Computer trading in financial markets is a rapidly developing field with a growing number of applications. Automated analysis of news and computation of market sentiment is a related applied research topic which impinges on the methods and models deployed in the former. In this chapter we have...