2020 Fall FE570 Market Microstructure and Trading Strategies
Course Catalog Description
Introduction
Campus | Fall | Spring | Summer |
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On Campus | X | X | |
Web Campus | X |
Instructors
Professor | Office | |
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Steve Yang |
steve.yang@stevens.edu | Babbio 536 |
Course Outcomes
After taking this course, the student will be able to:
- Form a broad understanding of how various markets work and how securities are traded.
- Develop a firm understanding the mechanics of market microstructure and price discovery.
- determine the differentials of functions of stochastic processes
- Formulate and back-test various trading strategies.
- Be able to analyze market data and discover market patterns using R package.
Course Resources
Textbook
- [Required:] Joel Hasbrouck, Empirical Market Microstructure, Oxford University Press, 2007
- [Optional:] Larry Harris, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, Oxford University Press, 2002
- [Required:] Anatoly B. Schmidt, Financial Markets and Trading: An Introduction to Market Microstructure and Trading Strategies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Grading
Grading Policies
Assignments: 40%;
Midterm exam: 30%;
Final Exam: 30%;
Exams: Two Exams. (Mid-term) EXAM I: March 13 - (Tues). (Final) EXAM II: May 15 - (Tues). These exams will
consist of short questions, and data analysis using R.
Exam Honor Policy: You are not allowed to discuss any of the exam questions with one another or to show
any of your solutions. The work must be done independently and pledged.
Homework: There will be 4 homework assignments (approximately every 2-3 weeks).
Homework Honor Policy: You are allowed to discuss the problems between yourselves, but once you begin
writing up your solution, you must do so independently, and cannot show one another any parts of your written
solutions. The HW is to be pledged (that it adheres to this).
Lecture Outline
Topic | Reading | |
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Week 1 | Introduction to Financial Markets | L. Harris [1, 3] |
Week 2 | Modern Financial Markets and Trading Mechanism | J. Hasbrouch [1,2], L.Harris [4, 5] |
Week 3 | Orders, Market Structure and Brokers | L.Harris [6, 7], J. Hasbrouck [3] |
Week 4 | Liquidity, Volatility, and Regulation | L.Harris [18, 19] |
Week 5 | The Roll Model of Trade Prices | J. Hasbrouck [3] |
Week 6 | Index and Portfolio Markets | Harris [23, 24] |
Week 7 | Inventory Models | L. Harris [19, 20], A.Schmidt[3] |
Week 8 | Market Microstructure: Information-based Models | L. Harris [24, 25], A.Schmidt[4] |
Week 9 | Empirical Market Microstructure | J. Hasbrouck [5,6] |
Week 10 | Mid-term Exam | EXAM-I |
Week 11 | Technical Trading Strategies | A.Schmidt[10] |
Week 12 | Arbitrage Trading Strategies | A.Schmidt[11] |
Week 13 | Optimal Order Execution | A.Schmidt[12,13] |
Week 14 | Final Exam | EXAM-II |