can someone explain wtf "X is good for price discovery" means because it seems that people throw this phrase around and have no idea (or, at least, I certainly don't)
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Replying to @GuilleAngeris
One way of thinking about the phrase "X is good for price discovery" is by thinking about whether X conveys new information to the market. genuinely new information has permanent price impact, whereas other effects (such as e.g. rebalancing trades) only have temporary impact
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Replying to @drewg__
Makes sense! And I agree with this notion, I think In a lot of the times (and what I’m referring to here, which is hard without more context rip, sorry
) X is one of many markets? And here is where I lose the thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @GuilleAngeris @drewg__
Like what does it mean for a market to be better or worse for price discovery than another, other than it being just less liquid, e.g.
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Replying to @GuilleAngeris @drewg__
anyways, I think some other replies here cover what this might mean, but it’s a fairly technical notion in a lot of ways, from what I gather… not something one can easily throw around as a criticism or plus of a given market
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Yeah, I think to answer that you would need to model the information content of order flow and determine how the market reacts to that flow. The fed did a study here of FX markets which I highly recommend: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2020051pap.pdf …
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