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Bandit Market Makers

Trading and Market Microstructure 2013-08-05 v4 Computer Science and Game Theory Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce a modular framework for market making. It combines cost-function based automated market makers with bandit algorithms. We obtain worst-case profits guarantee's relative to the best in hindsight within a class of natural "overround" cost functions . This combination allow us to have distribution-free guarantees on the regret of profits while preserving the bounded worst-case losses and computational tractability over combinatorial spaces of the cost function based approach. We present simulation results to better understand the practical behaviour of market makers from the framework.

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@article{arxiv.1112.0076,
  title  = {Bandit Market Makers},
  author = {Nicolas Della Penna and Mark D. Reid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0076},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

A previous version of this work appeared in the NIPS 2011 Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of the Crowds

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