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Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 59 2015

High frequency trading and end-of-day price dislocation

Michael Aitken1; Douglas J. Cumming2; Feng Zhan3

1 Macquarie University · 2 York University · 3 John Carroll University

Abstract

We show that the presence of high frequency trading (HFT) has significantly mitigated the frequency and severity of end-of-day price dislocation. The effect of HFT is more pronounced on days when end of day price dislocation is more likely to be the result of market manipulation. Moreover, the effect of HFT is more pronounced than the role of trading rules, surveillance, enforcement and legal conditions in curtailing the frequency and severity of end-of-day price dislocation. We show our findings are robust to different proxies of the start of HFT by trade size, cancellation of orders, and co-location.

DOI
10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.06.011
Volume
59
Pages
330-349
Language
en
Sources
openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib

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