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On Detecting Spoofing Strategies in High Frequency Trading

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  • Xuan Tao
  • Andrew Day
  • Lan Ling
  • Samuel Drapeau

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Spoofing is an illegal act of artificially modifying the supply to drive temporarily prices in a given direction for profit. In practice, detection of such an act is challenging due to the complexity of modern electronic platforms and the high frequency at which orders are channeled. We present a micro-structural study of spoofing in a simple static setting. A multilevel imbalance which influences the resulting price movement is introduced upon which we describe the optimization strategy of a potential spoofer. We provide conditions under which a market is more likely to admit spoofing behavior as a function of the characteristics of the market. We describe the optimal spoofing strategy after optimization which allows us to quantify the resulting impact on the imbalance after spoofing. Based on these results we calibrate the model to real Level 2 datasets from TMX, and provide some monitoring procedures based on the Wasserstein distance to detect spoofing strategies in real time.

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  • Xuan Tao & Andrew Day & Lan Ling & Samuel Drapeau, 2020. "On Detecting Spoofing Strategies in High Frequency Trading," Papers 2009.14818, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2020.
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