QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

Market structure.
Orders and events.

Research into market structure, observable liquidity and the information lost when event histories are reduced to snapshots.

Orders and events

Additions, cancellations and trades change an order book. The same displayed prices and quantities can result from different event histories, with different implications for an order’s position in the queue.

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Market observations

The QNTUSDT study compares quoted spreads and displayed quantities across seven historical snapshots. It describes the sample, the calculation conventions and the differences between price and quantity measures of liquidity.

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Reproducible examples

Aurora Lab uses constructed inputs to make assumptions about event order and queue priority visible. Change one condition, compare the result and inspect the accompanying explanation.

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