Very Fast Money: High-Frequency Trading on the NASDAQ

Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Markets

86 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2012 Last revised: 31 May 2017

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Allen Carrion

University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics

Date Written: June 15, 2013

Abstract

This paper provides evidence regarding high-frequency trader (HFT) trading performance, trading costs, and effects on market efficiency using a sample of NASDAQ trades and quotes that directly identifies HFT participation. I find that HFTs engage in successful intra-day market timing, spreads are wider when HFTs provide liquidity and tighter when HFTs take liquidity, and prices incorporate information from order flow and market-wide returns more efficiently on days when HFT participation is high.

Keywords: high-frequency trading, trading performance, intraday return predictability, VWAP, trading costs, adverse selection, market efficiency

JEL Classification: G1, G2

Suggested Citation

Carrion, Allen, Very Fast Money: High-Frequency Trading on the NASDAQ (June 15, 2013). Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Markets, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2122716 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2122716

Allen Carrion (Contact Author)

University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics ( email )

Memphis, TN 38152
United States

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