Clean Sweep: Informed Trading through Intermarket Sweep Orders
研究发现跨市场扫单(ISO)占样本交易的46%和交易量的41%,尽管单笔规模小,但信息份额显著更高,且知情机构是主要使用者。
Abstract An intermarket sweep order (ISO) is a limit order that automatically executes in a designated market center even if another market center is publishing a better quotation. An investor submitting an ISO must satisfy order protection rules by concurrently submitting orders to the markets with better prices. We find that ISOs represent 46% of trades and 41% of volume in our sample. ISO trades have a significantly larger information share despite their small trade size relative to non-ISO trades. Post trade return analysis suggests that informed institutions are the main users of ISO trades.