Market Impact and Trading Profile of Hidden Orders in Stock Markets Articles uri icon

authors

  • MORO EGIDO, ESTEBAN
  • VICENTE GONZALEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER
  • MOYANO, LUIS GREGORIO
  • GERIG, A.
  • FARMER, J. DOYNE
  • VAGLICA, G
  • LILLO, FABRIZIO
  • MANTEGNA, ROSARIO NUNCIO

publication date

  • December 2009

start page

  • 66102

issue

  • 6

volume

  • 80

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1539-3755

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1539-3755

abstract

  • We empirically study the market impact of trading orders. We are specifically interested in large trading orders that are executed incrementally, which we call hidden orders. These are statistically reconstructed basedon information about market member codes using data from the Spanish Stock Market and the London Stock Exchange.We find that market impact is strongly concave, approximately increasing as the square root of order size. Furthermore, as a given order is executed, the impact grows in time according to a power law; after theorder is finished, it reverts to a level of about 0.5&-0.7 of its value at its peak. We observe that hidden orders are executed at a rate that more or less matches trading in the overall market, except for small deviations at the beginning and end of the order.