[Seminar] Relative Tick Size and the Trading Environment

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[Seminar] Relative Tick Size and the Trading Environment

Posted: 2016-09-27 　　Visits: 373

Speaker: Prof. Zhuo Zhong（Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne） Speaker Intro: Prof. Zhuo Zhong's CV Host: Prof. Peilin Hsieh Date: Sep.26,2016(Monday) Time: 16:40-18:00 Venue: N303, Econ Building Organizer: Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics & School of Economics Description：This paper examines how the relative tick size influences market liquidity and the biodiversity of trader interactions. Using unique NYSE order-level data, we find that a larger relative tick size benefits High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firms that make markets on the NYSE: they leave orders in the book longer, trade more aggressively, and have higher profit margins. The effects of a larger relative tick size on the market are more complex. In a one-tick spread environment, a larger relative tick size results in greater depth and more volume; in a multi-tick environment, the opposite outcome prevails. The negative impact on depth and volume in the multi-tick environment is consistent with greater adverse selection coming from increased undercutting of limit orders by informed HFT market makers.

Speaker: Prof. Zhuo Zhong（Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne）

Speaker Intro: Prof. Zhuo Zhong's CV

Host: Prof. Peilin Hsieh

Date: Sep.26,2016(Monday)

Time: 16:40-18:00

Venue: N303, Econ Building

Organizer: Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics & School of Economics

Description：This paper examines how the relative tick size influences market liquidity and the biodiversity of trader interactions. Using unique NYSE order-level data, we find that a larger relative tick size benefits High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firms that make markets on the NYSE: they leave orders in the book longer, trade more aggressively, and have higher profit margins. The effects of a larger relative tick size on the market are more complex. In a one-tick spread environment, a larger relative tick size results in greater depth and more volume; in a multi-tick environment, the opposite outcome prevails. The negative impact on depth and volume in the multi-tick environment is consistent with greater adverse selection coming from increased undercutting of limit orders by informed HFT market makers.