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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: How Much Liquidity Is Enough? About 10 MEUR.

    May 18, 2026

    Is there some point beyond which the marginal utility of additional liquidity becomes (close to) zero? Was a trade in the historical data ... More

  2. Stefan's blog: Of the Consolidated Tape and Airbags

    May 18, 2026

    The European Consolidated Tape will come. Personally, I would have preferred a post-trade tape, but: it is what it is - this ship has sailed. I do ... More

  3. Stefan's blog: Big Boy Pants 2026Q1

    Apr 21, 2026

    It is this time of the year again where we review some of the more noteworthy trades of the previous quarter. More

  4. Stefan's blog: Delegated Pulls - With Numbers

    Apr 10, 2026

    Obtaining good queue position when market making is only part of the puzzle. Once an order is in the limit order book, one has to decide every ... More

  5. Stefan's blog: Eight Orders Of Magnitude

    Mar 23, 2026

    The Clearstream Geographical Holdings dataset has received a major upgrade recently. Previously, data only included holdings with the ... More

  6. Stefan's blog: The Latency Sickle

    Mar 17, 2026

    Deutsche Börse's T7 platform operates on a strict public-before-private data dissemination principle. Information is always sent out first in the ... More

  7. Stefan's blog: Mo' Volatility, Mo' Option Volume

    Mar 9, 2026

    How does option volume compare to that of futures? One narrative is that when things get volatile (a lot of volume) then there is (relatively) ... More

  8. Stefan's blog: Are Busy Days Just Quiet Days With More Volume?

    Mar 2, 2026

    In a few weeks (from the time of writing), the new version of our HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschman index) dataset will be releases. It provides ... More

  9. Stefan's blog: Liquidity Picture vs. ADV

    Feb 23, 2026

    Suppose all trades in a stock only trade part of the liquidity available at the BBO. More size would have been available, but it was not taken. More

  10. Stefan's blog: Collusion or Just Pricing?

    Feb 16, 2026

    A recent study found "collusion" between ETF market makers on Euronext. The hypothesis and methodology are actually pretty cool. The authors ... More

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