Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading

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Main Authors: Barzykin, Alexander, Bergault, Philippe, Guéant, Olivier, Lemmel, Malo
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Published: 2025
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author Barzykin, Alexander
Bergault, Philippe
Guéant, Olivier
Lemmel, Malo
author_facet Barzykin, Alexander
Bergault, Philippe
Guéant, Olivier
Lemmel, Malo
contents Over the past decade, many dealers have implemented algorithmic models to automatically respond to RFQs and manage flows originating from their electronic platforms. In parallel, building on the foundational work of Ho and Stoll, and later Avellaneda and Stoikov, the academic literature on market making has expanded to address trade size distributions, client tiering, complex price dynamics, alpha signals, and the internalization versus externalization dilemma in markets with dealer-to-client and interdealer-broker segments. In this paper, we tackle two critical dimensions: adverse selection, arising from the presence of informed traders, and price reading, whereby the market maker's own quotes inadvertently reveal the direction of their inventory. These risks are well known to practitioners, who routinely face informed flows and algorithms capable of extracting signals from quoting behavior. Yet they have received limited attention in the quantitative finance literature, beyond stylized toy models with limited actionability. Extending the existing literature, we propose a tractable and implementable framework that enables market makers to adjust their quotes with greater awareness of informational risk.
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spellingShingle Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading
Barzykin, Alexander
Bergault, Philippe
Guéant, Olivier
Lemmel, Malo
Trading and Market Microstructure
Risk Management
Over the past decade, many dealers have implemented algorithmic models to automatically respond to RFQs and manage flows originating from their electronic platforms. In parallel, building on the foundational work of Ho and Stoll, and later Avellaneda and Stoikov, the academic literature on market making has expanded to address trade size distributions, client tiering, complex price dynamics, alpha signals, and the internalization versus externalization dilemma in markets with dealer-to-client and interdealer-broker segments. In this paper, we tackle two critical dimensions: adverse selection, arising from the presence of informed traders, and price reading, whereby the market maker's own quotes inadvertently reveal the direction of their inventory. These risks are well known to practitioners, who routinely face informed flows and algorithms capable of extracting signals from quoting behavior. Yet they have received limited attention in the quantitative finance literature, beyond stylized toy models with limited actionability. Extending the existing literature, we propose a tractable and implementable framework that enables market makers to adjust their quotes with greater awareness of informational risk.
title Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading
topic Trading and Market Microstructure
Risk Management
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20225