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Follow the blogs of our expert Stefan Schlamp, Head of Quantitative Analytics, about recent trends and developments in the market.

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  1. Stefan's blog: Trade Reversals

    Dec 8, 2025

    Stuff happens. There needs to be a mechanism to reverse (bust) trades after the fact - and there is. The EOBI real-time data feed even ... More

  2. Stefan's blog: Who Is Selling (Buying) in a Rising (Falling) Market?

    Dec 1, 2025

    For every buyer, there is a seller. And the population of buyers and sellers are different in terms of their classification ("trading capacity" - ... More

  3. Stefan's blog: Fantastic Beasts - The MidSweepSmpIceberg

    Dec 1, 2025

    I am always on the lookout for market data edge cases. And the more market models and features are operating side-by-side, the more exotic edge ... More

  4. Stefan's blog: Post-Trade Adjustments

    Nov 18, 2025

    Participants provide a "TradingCapacity" (MM, PROP, or AGENT) with each order request. Based on this information, and given the start-of-day open ... More

  5. Stefan's blog: Pedal to the Metal, 2025Q3

    Nov 10, 2025

    It is that time of the year again to reveal the list of the largest and deepest trade of the previous quarter. More

  6. Stefan's blog: Avg. Spread vs. Avg. Crossed Spread vs. Avg. Markout

    Nov 3, 2025

    A lot of the discussions about tick sizes reminds me of bike shedding. At the end of the day it is a problem where everybody can have an opinion ... More

  7. Stefan's blog: Optimal Tick Sizes

    Nov 3, 2025

    I spent some time on the US equities market. It took me a while to understand what people were talking about when they talked about "low priced ... More

  8. Stefan's blog: Better To Be Last in a Group Than Alone

    Oct 21, 2025

    It is often said that low-latency trading is a winner-takes-all game. For aggressive strategies this is - to some degree (with a lot of ... More

  9. Stefan's blog: A Good Horse Only Jumps as High as It Has To

    Oct 13, 2025

    A looong time ago I had to implement a market-making algo for equity index CFDs on LMAX. The assumption was that we would trade against customers ... More

  10. Stefan's blog: In the Beginning There Was a Simple Trade

    Oct 6, 2025

    Things back in the days were easy. Nowadays, figuring out exactly what was going on from the market data is, let's put this euphemistically, not ... More

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