Increasing the Tick: Examining the Impact of the Tick Size Change on Market Fee Venues

54 Pages Posted: 11 Oct 2017 Last revised: 26 Oct 2017

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Justin Cox

Appalachian State University

Bonnie F. Van Ness

University of Mississippi - Department of Finance

Robert A. Van Ness

University of Mississippi - Department of Finance

Date Written: October 25, 2017

Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of an increase in tick size on order and trading flow across market fee venues. Using the pilot firms in the SEC’s Tick Size Pilot Program, we document trade and order volume declines significantly on maker-taker fee venues after the tick size implementation. Further, our results indicate that the inverted fee venue, taker-maker, experiences a significant increase in both trade and order volume. Our results are consistent with Foucault, Kadan, and Kandel (2013) in that a tick size adjustment has a substantial influence in the market participation in maker-taker fee venues. Additionally, we analyze the effects of the tick size change on measures of hidden and algorithmic trading, finding that measures of both hidden and algorithmic trading decline with an increasing tick size, this is strongly moderated by the differences in the maker-taker and taker-maker fee venues.

Keywords: Tick Size, Maker-Taker, Algorithmic Trading, Hidden Liquidity

JEL Classification: G10, G12, G14, G18

Suggested Citation

Cox, Justin and Van Ness, Bonnie F. and Van Ness, Robert A., Increasing the Tick: Examining the Impact of the Tick Size Change on Market Fee Venues (October 25, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3050845 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3050845

Justin Cox

Appalachian State University ( email )

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Bonnie F. Van Ness

University of Mississippi - Department of Finance ( email )

Oxford, MS 38677
United States
662-915-6749 (Phone)
662-915-7968 (Fax)

Robert A. Van Ness (Contact Author)

University of Mississippi - Department of Finance ( email )

Oxford, MS 38677
United States

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