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Spread, volatility, and volume relationship in financial markets and market making profit optimization

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We study the relationship between price spread, volatility and trading volume. We find that spread forms as a result of interplay between order liquidity and order impact. When trading volume is small adding more liquidity helps improve price accuracy and reduce spread, but after some point additional liquidity begins to deteriorate price. The model allows to connect the bid-ask spread and high-low bars to measurable microstructural parameters and express their dependence on trading volume, volatility and time horizon. Using the established relations, we address the operating spread optimization problem to maximize market-making profit.

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  • Jack Sarkissian, 2016. "Spread, volatility, and volume relationship in financial markets and market making profit optimization," Papers 1606.07381, arXiv.org.
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