Metaorder limit prices in evaluating expected market impact and assessing execution service quality
Open Access
- 4 July 2019
- journal article
- Published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives in Investment Management and Financial Innovations
- Vol. 16 (2), 355-369
- https://doi.org/10.21511/imfi.16(2).2019.30
Abstract
The paper examines the bias introduced by metaorder limit prices when measuring quality of execution services on financial market. While evaluating the quality of execution services, observed execution costs should be adjusted for metaorder participation rate, size and duration to ensure that they are comparable across execution service providers. One of the exogenous factors which may bias measured execution costs are the different metaorder limit prices in the sample. Currently, there are no proposed methods to normalize for this bias. In the research, the difference in execution costs for metaorders with different limit prices was examined by implementing a limit order book simulation model. It was discovered that the difference in metaorder limit prices is a source of significant heterogeneity in the execution cost distribution. However, we were able to prove that when market agents trade with constant intensities, the difference in execution costs for metaorders with different limit prices is fully explained by their realized participation rate. As a result, financial institution may assess quality of execution services for metaorders without any reservations about differences in metaorders limit prices as long as execution costs are adjusted for different participation rates.Keywords
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