XCore HFT / Trading Lab
PULSE: Cross-venue arbitrage depends on transferability
Quantitative execution, market-microstructure, and risk-control research from XTRSK.
Risk in systematic trading is rarely one number. It is a chain of assumptions that must remain true at the same time.
A compact operating checklist is: 1) include fees, rebates, funding and withdrawal constraints; 2) pre-position inventory when transfer is slower than the opportunity;
How does your desk distinguish a temporary execution problem from evidence that the underlying edge has changed?
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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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