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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: The Cheddar-Mozzarella Spread

    Sep 21, 2026

    The European Energy Exchange (EEX) publishes Weekly European Cheese Indices (WECI). Not knowing anything about this niche of the market, I would ... More

  2. Stefan's blog: Level-3 Alpha

    Sep 15, 2026

    A few weeks ago, I showed how much predictive power the book pressure has. For that analysis I had used the "classical" formula, which uses the ... More

  3. Stefan's blog: Market Share by Vintage

    Sep 7, 2026

    Suppose you create a new chocolate bar today. What are the chances that nobody comes up with a better recipe over the next 50 years? And yet, the ... More

  4. Stefan's blog: Goldilocks Queue Position

    Sep 7, 2026

    It has been over four years since my first attempt to show the importance of queue position for market making. I have also written about how to ... More

  5. Stefan's blog: Kleine Ursache, Große Wirkung

    Sep 1, 2026

    or: The Butterfly Effect. Orders in Xetra's midpoint can have a minimum acceptable quantity (MAQ). The intention is to protect orders from being ... More

  6. Stefan's blog: Muzzle Velocity and Caliber

    Aug 17, 2026

    The latency picture (muzzle velocity) has not changed notably for a while. But it seems that participants' caliber has become larger. Imagine you ... More

  7. Stefan's blog: Pricing the DAX Future

    Aug 10, 2026

    The DAX index future (FDAX) trades between 2 am and 10 pm on Eurex, but the cash market is only open between 9 am and 5:30 pm (all times CET); More

  8. Stefan's blog: The Decay Chain

    Aug 4, 2026

    In nuclear physics, a decay chain refers to the series of steps through which an unstable isotopes decays until it eventually reaches lead. More

  9. Stefan's blog: A Clean Exit

    Jul 28, 2026

    On 20221025 Linde announced its decision to delist from Xetra at the end of February of the following year. Supposedly, Linde was unhappy with the ... More

  10. Stefan's blog: The First Principal Component

    Jul 21, 2026

    ... of every microstructure-based strategy is the imbalance a/k/a book pressure. More

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