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Hauptverfasser: Ma, Chutian, Saggese, Giacinto Paolo, Smith, Paul
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Ma, Chutian
Saggese, Giacinto Paolo
Smith, Paul
author_facet Ma, Chutian
Saggese, Giacinto Paolo
Smith, Paul
contents Market participants regularly send bid and ask quotes to exchange-operated limit order books. This creates an optimization challenge where their potential profit is determined by their quoted price and how often their orders are successfully executed. The expected profit from successful execution at a favorable limit price needs to be balanced against two key risks: (1) the possibility that orders will remain unfilled, which hinders the trading agenda and leads to greater price uncertainty, and (2) the danger that limit orders will be executed as market orders, particularly in the presence of order submission latency, which in turn results in higher transaction costs. In this paper, we consider a stochastic optimal control problem where a risk-averse trader attempts to maximize profit while balancing risk. The market is modeled using Brownian motion to represent the price uncertainty. We analyze the relationship between fill probability, limit price, and order submission latency. We derive closed-form approximations of these quantities that perform well in the practical regime of interest. Then, we utilize a mean-variance method where our total reward function features a risk-tolerance parameter to quantify the combined risk and profit.
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spellingShingle The effect of latency on optimal order execution policy
Ma, Chutian
Saggese, Giacinto Paolo
Smith, Paul
Mathematical Finance
Optimization and Control
91G15 (Primary) 93E20, 60J28 (Secondary)
Market participants regularly send bid and ask quotes to exchange-operated limit order books. This creates an optimization challenge where their potential profit is determined by their quoted price and how often their orders are successfully executed. The expected profit from successful execution at a favorable limit price needs to be balanced against two key risks: (1) the possibility that orders will remain unfilled, which hinders the trading agenda and leads to greater price uncertainty, and (2) the danger that limit orders will be executed as market orders, particularly in the presence of order submission latency, which in turn results in higher transaction costs. In this paper, we consider a stochastic optimal control problem where a risk-averse trader attempts to maximize profit while balancing risk. The market is modeled using Brownian motion to represent the price uncertainty. We analyze the relationship between fill probability, limit price, and order submission latency. We derive closed-form approximations of these quantities that perform well in the practical regime of interest. Then, we utilize a mean-variance method where our total reward function features a risk-tolerance parameter to quantify the combined risk and profit.
title The effect of latency on optimal order execution policy
topic Mathematical Finance
Optimization and Control
91G15 (Primary) 93E20, 60J28 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00846