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5 - Single-Queue Dynamics: Simple Models

from PART III - LIMIT ORDER BOOKS: MODELS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Affiliation:
Capital Fund Management, Paris
Julius Bonart
Affiliation:
University College London
Jonathan Donier
Affiliation:
Capital Fund Management
Martin Gould
Affiliation:
CFM - Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance
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Summary

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

(L. Boltzmann)

Modelling the full dynamics of an LOB is a complicated task. As we discussed in Chapter 3, limit orders can be submitted or cancelled at a wide range of different prices, and can also be matched to incoming market orders. Limit orders of many different sizes often reside at the same price level, where they queue according to a specified priority system (see Section 3.2.1). The arrival and cancellation rates of these orders also depend on the state of the LOB, which induces a feedback loop between order flow and liquidity and thereby further complicates the problem. Due to the large number of traders active in some markets, and given that each such trader can own many different limit orders at many different prices, even keeping track of an LOB's temporal evolution is certainly a challenge.

Despite these difficulties, there are many clear benefits to developing and studying LOB models. For example, analysing the interactions between different types of orders can help to provide insight into how best to act in given market situations, how to design optimal execution strategies, and even how to address questions about market stability. Therefore, LOB modelling attracts a great deal of attention from practitioners, academics and regulators.

Throughout the next four chapters, we introduce and develop a framework for LOB modelling. In the present chapter, we begin by considering the core building block of our approach: the temporal evolution of a single queue of limit orders, using highly simplified models. In Chapter 6, we extend our analysis to incorporate several important empirical facts into our theoretical description of single queues. In Chapter 7, we consider the joint dynamics of the best bid- and ask-queues together, from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Finally, in Chapter 8, we discuss how to extend these models to describe the dynamics of a full LOB. In all of these chapters, we aim to derive several exact results within the framework of simplified stochastic models, and approximate results for more realistic models calibrated to market data.

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Trades, Quotes and Prices
Financial Markets Under the Microscope
, pp. 78 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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