Size and information revelation in securities trading

Ryan Garvey, Tao Huang and Fei Wu

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 15, 1083-1086

Abstract: We examine differences in information content between order submission sizes and trade sizes by U.S. equity traders. Increasing (decreasing) order submission (trade) size is reflective of information. The result suggests that better-informed traders want to trade in a large size, but that they engage in stealth trading practices or break larger orders into smaller sizes in order to conceal information. While prior studies tend to narrowly focus on trade executions at the market-centre level, our findings indicate that order submission size varies significantly from trade size and that both sizes are informative about future prices, albeit in an inverse manner.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1397844

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