The Competitive Landscape of High-Frequency Trading Firms
研究了高频交易行业中交易策略的产品差异化，用主成分分析识别出三类策略，并分析它们对股票短期波动和交易场所的影响。
Abstract We examine product differentiation in the high-frequency trading (HFT) industry, where the “products” are secretive proprietary trading strategies. We demonstrate how principal component analysis can be used to detect underlying strategies common to multiple HFT firms and show that there are three product categories with distinct attributes. We study how HFT competition in each product category affects the market environment and present evidence that indicates how it influences the short-horizon volatility of stocks as well as the viability of trading venues. Received October 10, 2016; editorial decision September 30, 2017 by Editor Itay Goldstein. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.