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A year ago
Question 3 (high-frequency trading (HFT) arms-race). You want to make sure you understandhow trading on limit order book works before attempting this question.
Suppose there is one security being traded on an exchange where trading operates via a limit order book. The exchange opens at 9 am every day and closes at 4 pm. There is no uncertainty about the value of the security: each share is worth $10.5. Suppose there are two HFTs, 1 and 2, who compete by submitting limit orders. Other traders, collectively, submit one market order for one share every minute. Each market order buys or sells with equal probability.
The goal of HFTs is to maximize expected profits. HFT profit calculation goes as follows: if my limit buy order of Q shares at a price $P is traded (met by a market sell order), my profit (possibly negative) is Q ×$(10.5 −P ).4 Symmetrically, If my limit sell order of Q shares at a price $P traded, then my profit (possibly negative)
is Q ×$(P −10.5). The exchange rule says that the minimum tick size is $1, so limit orders can only be submitted at integer prices (...$8, $9, $10, $11, ...). When market orders arrive, the execution of limit orders follows the “price-time priority” principle.

(a) (1 point) Out of all possible prices, what is the lowest price at which HFTs are willing to sell (so that they will not suffer losses when trading)? What is the highest price at which HFTs are willing to buy?
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Anonymous
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A year ago
I think it is 11 and 10 respectively.

$10 is most you'd be willing to buy it for if it is valued at $10.50

11 - 10.5 gives a positive profit when sold
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