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Microstructure and Execution
How orders become trades and what they cost: the limit order book, the spread and the tick, venues and routing, price impact and propagators, optimal execution from Almgren–Chriss onwards, execution algorithms, TCA and market quality, with a matching engine and an execution algorithm built.
Sync your reading across devicesThe Order Book
- 1 The Limit Order Book 8 solved exercises
- 2 Order Types and Their Uses 8 solved exercises
- 3 Empirical Facts of Order Books 8 solved exercises
- 4 Why There Is a Spread 8 solved exercises
- 5 Decomposing the Spread 8 solved exercises
- 6 Tick Size, Queues and Priority 8 solved exercises
- 7 Fees, Rebates and Venue Economics 8 solved exercises
- 8 Fragmentation and Routing 8 solved exercises
- 9 Dark Pools and Blocks 8 solved exercises
- 10 Auction Mechanics and Theory 8 solved exercises
Market Impact
- 11 The Empirics of Price Impact 8 solved exercises
- 12 Transient Impact and Propagator Models 8 solved exercises
- 13 Metaorders, Latent Liquidity and Cross-Impact 8 solved exercises
Optimal Execution
- 14 The Almgren–Chriss Framework 8 solved exercises
- 15 Beyond Almgren–Chriss 8 solved exercises
- 16 Benchmark Algorithms 8 solved exercises
- 17 Child-Order Placement 8 solved exercises
- 18 Smart Order Routing 8 solved exercises
- 19 Transaction-Cost Analysis 8 solved exercises
- 20 The Buy-Side Trading Desk and Its Brokers 8 solved exercises
- 21 Execution Beyond Equities 8 solved exercises
- 22 Portfolio Trades and Risk Bids 8 solved exercises
Dealer Markets and Market Quality
- 23 Request for Quote and Dealer Markets in Theory 8 solved exercises
- 24 Market Quality and Regulation 8 solved exercises
- 25 Circuit Breakers and Halts 8 solved exercises
Builds
- 26 Build: A Matching Engine and Exchange Simulator 8 solved exercises
- 27 Build: an Agent-Based Market 8 solved exercises
- 28 Build: an Execution Algorithm 8 solved exercises
28 chapters — 28 online so far, and more publishing regularly. The complete book is already available as a free PDF you can read online.