August 2014Slide 1 Market Structure and Educational Trading Simulations Market structures and IT innovations Traders’ decision problems Transactions cost analysis Market quality assessment Bruce Weber Greg Sipress August 22, 2014
20 new offices, 2 conference rooms 20 PhD workspaces Doubles JPMC Innovation Center capacity Adds:
Wall Street (1988 movie) clip Q: What determines the price of a trade? Answer: Answer: Price = f(I, L, T) Information, Liquidity, Trading and therefore, P = f( I, L, T) Slide 3
Books Investing for the NEXT 30 MINUTES
Slide 5 Market Structures Order Book, Market Makers, Call Auction, Dark Pools 3 Sources of Orders Informed Is p*>offer or p*<bid? What Drives a Market? Liquidity Order Flow Quotes, Prices, Volume Momentum Is there a trend/ pattern? P* Slide 5
User entering a market order to buy Click to cancel your limit order to buy 22 at Order Book market Ask: 472 offered at Bid for 134 2) P&L 3) VWAP Performance measures 1) Average prices
Market makers quote 2-way prices Position, Long 172 Risk=Average Position Quote-Driven Dealer market
Call Auction market
Dark Pools Un-displayed liquidity With or without price discovery Reference pricing to a displayed market Slide 9
Slide 10 e.g., Midspread match of a seller and a buyer Slide 10
/standAloneStockTrakDyn.jsp Slide 11
Results at end of simulation Best selling performance?
Final Results:
Slide 14 Admin – Setting up a Simulation P* changes but no stories Select a market structure
Shift P* up or down Control Panel: Instructor’s view of market during run Control the speed of the clock Control Panel tab Send updates
The End Understanding trading in today’s market environments Slide 16