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Follow the blogs of our expert Stefan Schlamp, Head of Quantitative Analytics, about recent trends and developments in the market.

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  1. Stefan's blog: Birthday Problem - Nanosecond Edition

    Mar 24, 2025

    The classical birthday problem asks for the probability of two children in a class of x children having their birthdays on the same day. Given ... More

  2. Stefan's blog: Bullets Dodged, Bullets Caught

    Mar 17, 2025

    Suppose you have a resting order in the limit order book. Your fair value model suggests that you should pull the order. But the decision of ... More

  3. Stefan's blog: Are Fill/Cancels to Blame?

    Mar 10, 2025

    This week I add another bucket: fill/cancels a/k/a late cancels. These are undesired fills - the participant had tried to cancel the order but by ... More

  4. Stefan's blog: Closing Auction Market Share - The Long View

    Mar 10, 2025

    There have been some recent studies that highlighted the increasing market share of the closing auction. The data in these studies "only" went ... More

  5. Stefan's blog: Where'd Your Money Go?

    Feb 17, 2025

    Under ideal conditions, the market maker earns the half-spread on every trade. Alas, reality is anything but ideal. More

  6. Stefan's blog: Share Buyback Regs vs. Physics

    Feb 17, 2025

    The regulations for executing share buybacks are oddly specific. More

  7. Stefan's blog: Retail, Dark Midpoint, and CLOB Intraday Volume Profile

    Feb 3, 2025

    Xetra dark midpoint allows us to examine difference in intraday trading patterns. More

  8. Stefan's blog: Variability of Auction Liquidity

    Jan 27, 2025

    Stefan checks the variability of deep liquidity in the auction book. More

  9. Stefan's blog: SMP^21

    Sep 9, 2024

    Self-match prevention (SMP) is facility provided by exchanges to easily prevent participants from inadvertently trading with themselves (wash ... More

  10. Stefan's blog: How Informative are BBO Cancels?

    Sep 5, 2024

    Stefan looked at the likelihood that an order on the BBO would be canceled as a function of its queue position. We saw that orders with good queue ... More

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