Market Microstructure For Practitioners: Learn the Secrets of the Financial Markets

Can I get some recommendations for a book on market microstructure? I'm not looking for some author's questionable methods for trading, I'm just looking for a book that provides me with facts about how order books, closing auctions, order execution, etc. really works.

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Classical book on market microstructure is: Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris. It's a bit outdated (2002) and missing few recent market developments like dark pools etc. but the way it currently is it's already highly recommended reading.

I'd go with either Anatoly Schmidt's Financial Markets and Trading or Joel Hasbrouck's Empirical Market Microstructure. Both have plenty of math, and that's pretty much required when talking about market microstructure.

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Most retail investors buy and sell stocks without any clue about how things work behind the scenes. They have no idea how their orders are handled, and what motivates the behavior of various market participants. Although a detailed understanding of market microstructure is not necessary for investing, understanding it clears up many of the confusions that investors encounter throughout their investing journey. For active traders, understanding market structure is crucial. Traders are competing against other traders within the framework of a market. To trade profitably, traders must understand the motivations of other traders. They must also understand the rules of the market: what they can do and what they cannot. In this article, I provide a list of introductory materials for those investors and traders who want to understand the fundamentals of the market itself.

This is commonly regarded as a classic. It is written at a readable level, and introduces the reader to market microstructure. The book was published in 2003, so some of the details may be outdated. Nevertheless, most of the content is still relevant today to a broad range of markets worldwide. The book is also less US-centric than one might initially expect.

This is a shorter and more recent book by Larry Harris, published in 2015. This book provides some newer information about markets that was not written in the 2003 book by Larry Harris. As its title suggests, it includes more information about electronic markets and trading. This is an important update, given how electronic trading has grown the last two decades. This book is published by the CFA Institute, and it is available for free in PDF format.

Stéphanie Sureau works as a Quantitative Analyst in the Quantitative Research team of Kepler Cheuvreux. For the past years, she has conducted research on market-flows as awell as on cost of capital-driven strategies. She also published research publications on trading and execution. She previously worked on Corporate Brokerage strategies. Stéphanie graduated with a B.Sc. from Paris Dauphine University;majoring in Applied Mathematics and Financial Markets; and passed Level III of the CFA exam. She started her professional experience by studying energy products in an Asset Management firm.

As a Quantitative Analyst within the Kepler-Cheuvreux Quantitative Research team, Matthieu Lasnier is an expert in market microstructure and has developed a strong expertise in the field of market impact. As he is in charge of market microstructure and transaction cost analysis questions, he monitors and studies the changes that have occurred in the European and American equity markets since the regulatory changes at the origin of the fragmentation. Matthieu is also the author of academic publications on market impact. Matthieu is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-Lyon), from ENSAE (National School of Statistics and Economics-Paris)and also holds a Master of Science in mathematics from Paris-7.

ContentsTraditional asset pricing theory and investment analysis treat the process of price formation as a black box. The actual structure of financial markets does not play a role, and frictions and transaction costs are disregarded. These issues, and market liquidity in particular, are of enormous practical importance. This is evidenced by the great attention regulators pay to issues of financial market structure (e.g. the MiFID directive of the EU), as well as by the attention market participants pay to trading costs. In recent years, many new markets have been created in an attempt to reduce transaction costs (e.g. the ATS in the US or Chi-X and Turquoise in Europe). The branch of financial economics that deals with these issues is called market microstructure. This course provides an introduction into the theoretical and empirical foundations of market microstructure.

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The Swiss National Bank will host the 16th Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets on 7-8 October 2021. This central bank workshop invites researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to discuss theoretical work, empirical findings and policy implications related to the microstructure of financial markets. Keynote Speaker are Thierry Foucault, HEC Paris, and Robert Almgren, Quantitative Brokers.

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Moreover, it brings you all the knowledge about developing Algorithmic Trading systems. Hence, it concludes that the sound knowledge of market microstructure is an important prerequisite for high-frequency traders and market makers.

The primary objective of the book, as mentioned by the author is to understand the origins of the market quality characteristics like liquidity, transaction costs, informative prices, volatility, and trading profits.

The book introduces readers to the general issues and problems in market microstructure and further delves into inventory, information-based, and strategic trader models of informed and uninformed traders.

For predicting the trade in the market, this systematic trading system uses time series analysis and other statistical models. Moreover, if you are looking to be hired in a quant firm, you need to have a sound knowledge of Maths and Statistics.

Since this book is considered the bible of technical analysis, it offers deep insight into the technical analysis of financial markets. Moreover, for your better understanding, it has been written in a simple and easy-to-understand language by the author.

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