Economy – Quantitative Finance – Trading and Market Microstructure
Scientific paper
2011-05-16
Economy
Quantitative Finance
Trading and Market Microstructure
Scientific paper
Market makers continuously set bid and ask quotes for the stocks they have under consideration. Hence they face a complex optimization problem in which their return, based on the bid-ask spread they quote and the frequency they indeed provide liquidity, is challenged by the price risk they bear due to their inventory. In this paper, we consider a stochastic control problem similar to the one introduced by Ho and Stoll [14] and formalized mathematically by Avellaneda and Stoikov [3]. The market is modeled using a reference price $S_t$ following a Brownian motion with standard deviation $\sigma$, arrival rates of buy or sell liquidity-consuming orders depend on the distance to the reference price $S_t$ and a market maker maximizes the expected utility of its PnL over a short time horizon.We show that the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations can be transformed into a system of linear ordinary differential equations and we solve the market making problem under inventory constraints. We also provide a spectral characterization of the asymptotic behavior of the optimal quotes and propose closed-form approximations.
Guéant Olivier
Lehalle Charles-Albert
Tapia Joaquin Fernandez
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