In the fourteenth Trading InfoSnack: Cluster-struck the Equity experts of SIX Swiss Exchange look at the contributions of different types of trade clusters to market share, liquidity & execution performance dynamics, and their usefulness for passive order allocation strategies.

The new Trading InfoSnack utilises a density-based clustering algorithm to identify how different types of short-duration trade clusters (single-trade-clusters, single-venue-clusters & multi-venue-clusters) contribute to each venue’s market share.  This provides a novel approach to examining liquidity and execution performance differences between venues.

Discover in our new InfoSnack why analysing trade cluster dynamics is highly relevant for identifying where orders need to be placed / routed to interact with different types of trading activity, and what the expected execution benefit or cost may be for doing so.

Thibaut Vidart, Product Manager, Global Market Data, SIX

Utilising density-based spacial clustering to group trades into distinct cluster types, is a useful approach for fingerprinting liquidity and execution performance dynamics across venues. Something which yields highly relevant insights for cross-venue passive order allocation.

Simon McQuoid-Mason, Head Equity Products & Quant Research

Insights on Relevant Trading and Market Structure Topics

The Trading InfoSnack articles are insightful research features that provide commentary on market relevant trends, models and microstructure that influence the trading of Swiss securities, underpinned by in-depth analysis from the SIX Swiss Exchange Equities team.