Clean Sweep: Informed Trading Through Intermarket Sweep Orders

39 Pages Posted: 25 Aug 2009 Last revised: 3 Dec 2010

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Sugato Chakravarty

Krannert School of Management

Pankaj K. Jain

University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics

Robert Wood

University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics

James Upson

University of Texas at El Paso

Date Written: August 24, 2009

Abstract

An ISO is a limit order designated for automatic execution in a specific market center even when another market center is publishing a better quotation, as long as the trader submits concurrent orders to the other market. We find that ISOs represent 46% of trades and 41% of volume in our sample. ISO trades have significantly larger information share despite their small trade size relative to non-ISO trades. Post trade return analysis suggests that informed institutions are the main users of ISO trades.

Keywords: Regulation NMS, Market Quality, Sweep Order, Flash orders

JEL Classification: G14, G18, G19

Suggested Citation

Chakravarty, Sugato and Jain, Pankaj K. and Wood, Robert A. and Upson, James, Clean Sweep: Informed Trading Through Intermarket Sweep Orders (August 24, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1460865 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1460865

Sugato Chakravarty

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Pankaj K. Jain

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

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Robert A. Wood

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

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James Upson (Contact Author)

University of Texas at El Paso ( email )

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