Institutional trading

Feb 09, 2019
finance

Trading and Exchanges Chapter 18: What Buy-Side Traders Actually Do All Day

If you are a big institutional trader at a mutual fund or pension fund, your daily problem is not “what to buy.” The portfolio manager already decided that. Your problem is how to buy it without the whole market figuring out what you are doing and trading against you.

Feb 05, 2019
finance

Trading and Exchanges Chapter 15: How Big Trades Get Done Without Crashing Prices

Say you manage a pension fund and you need to sell 500,000 shares of some stock. You cannot just drop a market order on the exchange. The order book does not have that much liquidity sitting around. If you try to force it through, you will eat through every level of the book and crash the price on yourself. Chapter 15 is about how these giant trades actually get done.

Institutional trading

Trading and Exchanges Chapter 18: What Buy-Side Traders Actually Do All Day

Trading and Exchanges Chapter 15: How Big Trades Get Done Without Crashing Prices

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