XCore HFT / Trading Lab
PULSE: DMA routing quality must be measured
Quantitative execution, market-microstructure, and risk-control research from XTRSK.
The dangerous trading system is not always the slow one. It is often the fast one whose risk state is wrong. DMA routing quality must be measured.
A compact operating checklist is: 1) review whether routing logic changes market impact; 2) benchmark decision price, arrival price and final fill;
Which control has independent authority to stop new exposure when the strategy process becomes unreliable?
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The research behind this lesson
This paper explains The seminar frames electronic markets as price-time-priority queues. It separates queue value into spread capture versus adverse-selection cost and the option value of retaining a place in line.
Applied to this XCore lesson: An order lifetime therefore cannot be based on elapsed time alone: the system must reassess whether its queue position, expected spread and adverse-selection risk still justify keeping the order alive.
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Source: High-Frequency Trading and Modern Market Microstructure
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