In 2010, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchange headquartered outside of the United States, introduced a new trading platform, Arrowhead. This platform was designed to reduce latency and increase co-located, high-frequency quoting and trading (HFQ) from zero to 36% of trading...

We investigate the information content of the limit order book (LOB) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's second largest order-driven market. We find that high frequency microstructure parameters, such as the current cost-to-trade 1% of average daily volume and LOB slope, contain information...

We investigate the information content of the limit order book (LOB) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's second largest order-driven exchange1. Microstructure parameters, such as the current cost-to-trade 1% of average daily volume and order book slope, consistently and significantly...