Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203301 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
SAFE Working Paper No. 144
Version Description: 
This version: April 2017
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We study whether the presence of low-latency traders (including high-frequency traders (HFTs)) in the pre-opening period contributes to market quality, defined by price discovery and liquidity provision, in the opening auction. We use a unique dataset from the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) based on server-IDs and find that HFTs dynamically alter their presence in different stocks and on different days. In spite of the lack of immediate execution, about one quarter of HFTs participate in the pre-opening period, and contribute signifi- cantly to market quality in the pre-opening period, the opening auction that ensues and the continuous trading period. Their contribution is largely different from that of the other HFTs during the continuous period.
Subjects: 
High-Frequency Traders (HFTs)
Pre-Opening
Opening Call Auction
PriceDiscovery
Liquidity provision
JEL: 
G12
G14
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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