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sorting and filtering data ― news and event labels ― sorting and filtering event labels ― zooming function ― intraday market activities monitoring ― cross-transactions in group ― key statistics by trader or group 03.11.2011 Intraday 03.11.2011
points) Visualization of intraday dynamics: ― Labels of deals and events on the timeline ― Net position for trader or group ― Drilldown to orders and counterparty for each deal Cross deals (orange points)
― Bid-ask spread and orders of selected traders over historical period ― Order book visualization at the selected moment ― Order book replay: tick-by-tick or second-by-second ― Drilldown to list of orders for each price level Historical period Order book Order list Traders
of selected trader Historical period 60 sec. Current time = 16:48:45.000084 Volume by price levels of selected trades Play mode navigator Bid-ask spread
Historical Database Oracle API Cache Cache Prognoz.Situation Center Prognoz.TimeLine Project Project Distributed Calculation Engine t Alerts & Statistics Algorithm configurator Architecture benefits for brokers and regulators 1. Sophisticated market abuse patterns recognition 2. Configurable algorithms by users 3. Having isolated DMZ is the stringent info security requirement of many financial institutions 4. Insignificant (for surveillance) latency dramatically decreases costs of solution Batch Files Reserved channel
Millions Time Number of trades Number of orders Number of orders: ~ 10 M per day (median) ~ 37 M per day (in peak) Number of trades: ~ 700 K per day (median) ACTIVITY OF EQUITY MARKET
in 2011 that he never intended to execute. His goal, prosecutors said, was to lure other traders to markets by creating an illusion of demand so that he could make money on smaller trades, a practice known as spoofing. Prosecutors said he illegally earned $1.4m (£900,000) in less than three months in 2011 through spoofing.”, The Guardian, HFT layering, November 2015 “A unit of hedge fund Citadel LLC was fined $800,000 by U.S. regulators in June for failing to prevent erroneous orders from being sent to several stock exchanges over a nearly three-year period”, Reuters, HFT stuffing, 2014 “Athena is the regulator’s first market manipulation case against a firm engaged in high-frequency trading, an industry besieged by accusations that it cheats slower investors” , Bloomberg Business, HFT manipulations, 2014 “Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, is fighting extradition to the US where he is facing 22 charges ranging from wire fraud to commodities manipulation, which carry sentences totalling a maximum of 380 years. Mr Sarao is alleged by US prosecutors to have made $40m over four years by spoofing the Chicago futures market. The trader’s activities include making a $900,000 profit on May 6, 2010, when a trading frenzy known as the flash crash saw one of the most spectacular falls ever seen in the equity markets.” , Financial Times, 22 October 2015 MANIPULATIONS
min, hour) • Median lifetime of order • Best price ratio = count “best price” orders / count agent’s orders • Median minimum distance between agent’s price orders and best prices (best ask/best bid) QUOTE SMOKING
of buy orders / all orders • High number of orders in visible part of order book • Ratio of agent’s volume to visible volume of order book • Ratio of agent’s orders to count of orders in visible part of order book • Median lifetime of orders in each part of order book LAYERING/SPOOFING
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