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Trading Large Orders in the Presence of Multiple High-Frequency Anticipatory Traders

Trading and Market Microstructure 2024-03-14 v1

Abstract

We investigate a market with a normal-speed informed trader (IT) who may employ mixed strategy and multiple anticipatory high-frequency traders (HFTs) who are under different inventory pressures, in a three-period Kyle's model. The pure- and mixed-strategy equilibria are considered and the results provide recommendations for IT's randomization strategy with different numbers of HFTs. Some surprising results about investors' profits arise: the improvement of anticipatory traders' speed or a more precise prediction may harm themselves but help IT.

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@article{arxiv.2403.08202,
  title  = {Trading Large Orders in the Presence of Multiple High-Frequency Anticipatory Traders},
  author = {Ziyi Xu and Xue Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08202},
  year   = {2024}
}