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Latency races happen once a minute per large stock and cost 0.42 basis points of volume

KennzahlWert
Races a day, large company sharesabout 537, roughly one a minute
Races a day, mid cap sharesabout 70
Total races a day across the sampleabout 71,000
Race durationmean 79, median 46, mode 5 to 10 microseconds
Share of large cap volume occurring in racesabout 22%
The same for mid capsabout 17%
Tax as a share of total volume0.42 basis points
As a share of non race volume0.53 Basispunkte
Race trading share of price impactabout 31%
Race trading share of the effective spreadabout 33%
Implied cut in the cost of liquidity if eliminatedabout 17%

From exchange message data on all shares in a 350 constituent index across 43 trading days between 17 August and 16 October 2015. The paper reports standard deviations, percentiles and fit measures, and no standard errors, confidence intervals or formal significance tests for any headline estimate.

On 43 days of exchange message data, large company shares had about 537 latency races a day each, lasting a mean of 79 microseconds. The implied tax is 0.42 basis points of total volume against an effective spread of just over three.

about 537Races a day per large company share
about 79 microsecondsMean race duration
0.42 basis points of total volumeLatency arbitrage tax
just over 3 basis pointsAverage effective spread for comparison

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