Optimal Liquidity Trading

B-Tier
Journal: Review of Finance
Year: 2005
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 165-200

Authors (2)

Gur Huberman (Columbia University) Werner Stanzl (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

A liquidity trader wishes to trade a fixed number of shares within a certain time horizon and to minimize the mean and variance of the costs of trading. Explicit formulas for the optimal trading strategies show that risk-averse liquidity traders reduce their order sizes over time and execute a higher fraction of their total trading volume in early periods when price volatility or liquidity increases. In the presence of transaction fees, traders want to trade less often when either price volatility or liquidity goes up or when the speed of price reversion declines. In the multi-asset case, price effects across assets have a substantial impact on trading behavior.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:oup:revfin:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:165-200.
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-02-02