{"title":"The role of fleeting orders on option expiration days","authors":"Antonio Figueiredo, P. Jain, Suchi Mishra","doi":"10.1080/14697688.2023.2229375","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We employ NASDAQ order level data to analyze intraday trading at option expirations and cross-market price pressure spillover. We observe more fleeting orders in optionable stocks on option expiration versus non-expiration days. The relation between NBBO proximity to strike prices and fleeting order direction, the relation between option Open Interest and fleeting order direction, as well as their placement outside NBBO suggest spoofing and price manipulation rather than a simple search for latent liquidity. We show that fleeting orders impact subsequent NBBO and increase likelihood of stock prices crossing option strike prices on option expiration days.","PeriodicalId":20747,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Finance","volume":"90 1","pages":"1511 - 1529"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quantitative Finance","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2023.2229375","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We employ NASDAQ order level data to analyze intraday trading at option expirations and cross-market price pressure spillover. We observe more fleeting orders in optionable stocks on option expiration versus non-expiration days. The relation between NBBO proximity to strike prices and fleeting order direction, the relation between option Open Interest and fleeting order direction, as well as their placement outside NBBO suggest spoofing and price manipulation rather than a simple search for latent liquidity. We show that fleeting orders impact subsequent NBBO and increase likelihood of stock prices crossing option strike prices on option expiration days.
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The frontiers of finance are shifting rapidly, driven in part by the increasing use of quantitative methods in the field. Quantitative Finance welcomes original research articles that reflect the dynamism of this area. The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for presenting both theoretical and empirical approaches and offers rapid publication of original new work with high standards of quality. The readership is broad, embracing researchers and practitioners across a range of specialisms and within a variety of organizations. All articles should aim to be of interest to this broad readership.