Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87562 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 12-121/III
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper documents that speed is crucially important for high frequency trading strategies based on U.S. macroeconomic news releases. Using order level data of the highly liquid S&P500 ETF traded on NASDAQ from January 6, 2009, to December 12, 2011, we find that a delay of 300 milliseconds (1 second) significantly reduces returns by 3.08% (7.33%) compared to instantaneous execution over all announcements in the sample. This reduction is stronger in case of high impact news and on days with high volatility. In addition, we assess the effect of algorithmic trading on market quality around macroeconomic news. Increases in algorithmic trading activity have a positive (mixed) effect on market quality measures when we use algorithmic trading proxies that capture the top of the orderbook (full orderbook).
Subjects: 
Macroeconomic News
High Frequency Trading
Latency Costs
Market Activity
Event-Based Trading
JEL: 
E44
G10
G14
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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