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Optimal market making

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  • Olivier Guéant

    (ENSAE - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique)

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Market makers provide liquidity to other market participants: they propose prices at which they stand ready to buy and sell a wide variety of assets. They face a complex optimization problem with static and dynamic components: they need indeed to propose bid and offer/ask prices in an optimal way for making money out of the difference between these two prices (their bid-ask spread), while mitigating the risk associated with price changes -- because they seldom buy and sell simultaneously, and therefore hold long or short inventories which expose them to market risk. In this paper, (i) we propose a general modeling framework which generalizes (and reconciles) the various modeling approaches proposed in the literature since the publication of the seminal paper ``High-frequency trading in a limit order book'' by Avellaneda and Stoikov, (ii) we prove new general results on the existence and the characterization of optimal market making strategies, (iii) we obtain new closed-form approximations for the optimal quotes, (iv) we extend the modeling framework to the case of multi-asset market making, and (v) we show how the model can be used in practice in the specific case of the corporate bond market and for two credit indices.

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  • Olivier Guéant, 2016. "Optimal market making," Working Papers hal-01393135, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01393135
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    1. Nicolas Baradel & Bruno Bouchard & David Evangelista & Othmane Mounjid, 2019. "Optimal inventory management and order book modeling," Post-Print hal-01710301, HAL.
    2. Mehdi Tomas & Iacopo Mastromatteo & Michael Benzaquen, 2020. "How to build a cross-impact model from first principles: Theoretical requirements and empirical results," Working Papers hal-02567489, HAL.
    3. Vincent Ragel & Damien Challet, 2024. "Data time travel and consistent market making: taming reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems with anonymous data," Papers 2408.02322, arXiv.org.
    4. Philippe Bergault & Olivier Gu'eant, 2019. "Size matters for OTC market makers: general results and dimensionality reduction techniques," Papers 1907.01225, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2022.
    5. Lester Ingber, 2020. "Developing Bid-Ask Probabilities for High-Frequency Trading," Virtual Economics, The London Academy of Science and Business, vol. 3(2), pages 7-24, April.
    6. Frédéric Abergel & Côme Huré & Huyên Pham, 2019. "Algorithmic trading in a microstructural limit order book model," Working Papers hal-01514987, HAL.
    7. Fr'ed'eric Abergel & C^ome Hur'e & Huy^en Pham, 2017. "Algorithmic trading in a microstructural limit order book model," Papers 1705.01446, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2020.
    8. Mehdi Tomas & Iacopo Mastromatteo & Michael Benzaquen, 2020. "How to build a cross-impact model from first principles: Theoretical requirements and empirical results," Papers 2004.01624, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2022.
    9. Nicolas Baradel & Bruno Bouchard & David Evangelista & Othmane Mounjid, 2018. "Optimal inventory management and order book modeling," Working Papers hal-01710301, HAL.
    10. Bastien Baldacci & Philippe Bergault & Olivier Gu'eant, 2019. "Algorithmic market making for options," Papers 1907.12433, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2020.
    11. Nicolas Baradel & Bruno Bouchard & David Evangelista & Othmane Mounjid, 2018. "Optimal inventory management and order book modeling," Papers 1802.08135, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2018.
    12. Yagna Patel, 2018. "Optimizing Market Making using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning," Papers 1812.10252, arXiv.org.
    13. Joseph Jerome & Leandro Sanchez-Betancourt & Rahul Savani & Martin Herdegen, 2022. "Model-based gym environments for limit order book trading," Papers 2209.07823, arXiv.org.
    14. L. Ingber, 2020. "Forecasting with importance-sampling and path-integrals: Applications to COVID-19," Lester Ingber Papers 20fi, Lester Ingber.
    15. Olivier Guéant, 2016. "The Financial Mathematics of Market Liquidity: From Optimal Execution to Market Making," Post-Print hal-01393136, HAL.

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