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Main Authors: Bouzianis, George, Hughston, Lane P., Sánchez-Betancourt, Leandro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08875
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author Bouzianis, George
Hughston, Lane P.
Sánchez-Betancourt, Leandro
author_facet Bouzianis, George
Hughston, Lane P.
Sánchez-Betancourt, Leandro
contents We consider a pair of traders in a market where the information available to the second trader is a strict subset of the information available to the first trader. The traders make prices based on the information available concerning a security that pays a random cash flow at a fixed time $T$ in the future. Market information is modelled in line with the scheme of Brody, Hughston & Macrina (2007, 2008) and Brody, Davis, Friedman & Hughston (2009). The risk-neutral distribution of the cash flow is known to the traders, who make prices with a fixed multiplicative bid-offer spread and report their prices to a game master who declares that a trade has been made when the bid price of one of the traders crosses the offer price of the other. We prove that the value of the first trader's position is strictly greater than that of the second. The results are analyzed by use of simulation studies and generalized to situations where (a) there is a hierarchy of traders, (b) there are multiple successive trades, and (c) there is inventory aversion.
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spellingShingle Information-Based Trading
Bouzianis, George
Hughston, Lane P.
Sánchez-Betancourt, Leandro
Mathematical Finance
Probability
We consider a pair of traders in a market where the information available to the second trader is a strict subset of the information available to the first trader. The traders make prices based on the information available concerning a security that pays a random cash flow at a fixed time $T$ in the future. Market information is modelled in line with the scheme of Brody, Hughston & Macrina (2007, 2008) and Brody, Davis, Friedman & Hughston (2009). The risk-neutral distribution of the cash flow is known to the traders, who make prices with a fixed multiplicative bid-offer spread and report their prices to a game master who declares that a trade has been made when the bid price of one of the traders crosses the offer price of the other. We prove that the value of the first trader's position is strictly greater than that of the second. The results are analyzed by use of simulation studies and generalized to situations where (a) there is a hierarchy of traders, (b) there are multiple successive trades, and (c) there is inventory aversion.
title Information-Based Trading
topic Mathematical Finance
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08875