Trades, Quotes and Prices

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is a pioneer in Econophysics. He co-founded the company Science and Finance in 1994, which later merged with Capital Fund Management (CFM) in 2000. In 2007 he was appointed as an adjunct Professor at École Polytechnique, where he teaches a course on complex systems. His work focuses on the physics of disordered and glassy systems, granular materials, the statistics of price formation, stock market fluctuations and the modelling of financial risks. He was awarded the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Silver Medal in 1995, the Risk Quant of the Year Award in 2017 and is the co-author along with Marc Potters of Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing (Cambridge,2009). Julius Bonart is a lecturer at University College London where his research focuses on market microstructure and market design. Before, he was a research fellow at CFM and Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London where he investigated price impact, high-frequency dynamics, and the market microstructure in electronic financial markets. Julius Bonart obtained his Ph.D. in Statistical Physics from Pierre-et-Marie Curie University (Paris). Jonathan Donier completed a Ph.D. at University Paris 6 with the support of the Capital Fund Management Research Foundation. He studied price formation in financial markets using tools from physics, economics and financial mathematics. After his Ph.D., he carried on his research in a music industry start-up that joined Spotify in 2017, where he now serves as a Senior Research Scientist. Martin Gould currently works in the technology sector and was previously a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance, which is part of the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Londo. Martin holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in mathematics from the University of Oxford, Part III of the Mathematical Tripos from the University of Cambridge, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in mathematics from the University of Warwick.

• Preface; Part I. How and Why Do Prices Move?: 1. The ecology of financial markets; 2. The statistics of price changes: an informal primer; Part II. Limit Order Books: Introduction: 3. Limit order books; 4. Empirical properties of limit order books; Part III. Limit Order Books: Models: 5. Single-queue dynamics: simple models; 6. Single-queue dynamics for large-tick stocks; 7. Joint-queue dynamics for large-tick stocks; 8. The Santa Fe model for limit order books; Part IV. Clustering and Correlations: 9. Time clustering and Hawkes processes; 10. Long-range persistence of order flow; Part V. Price Impact: 11. The impact of market orders; 12. The impact of metaorders; Part VI. Six Market Dynamics at the Micro-scale: 13. The propagator model; 14. Generalised propagator models; Part VII. Adverse Selection and Liquidity Provision: 15. The Kyle model; 16. The determinants of the bid–ask spread; 17. The profitability of market making; Part VIII. Market Dynamics at the Meso-scale: 18. Latent liquidity and Walrasian auctions; 19. Impact dynamics in a continuous-time double auction; 20. The information content of prices; Part IX. Practical Consequences: 21. Optimal execution; 22. Market fairness and stability; 23. Appendices; Index.

'Leading physicist and hedge fund manager Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and his co-authors have written an impressive book that no serious student of market microstructure can afford to be without. Simultaneously quantitative and highly readable, Trades, Quotes and Prices presents a complete picture of the topic, from classical microstructure models to the latest research, informed by years of practical trading experience.' Jim Gatheral, Baruch College, City University of New York