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So the approach that many places gravitate towards is having a central market making book (just using inventory and simple signals to skew prices) and satellite prop books which exist purely to trade with the firm’s capital. These prop books can trade with the MM book
under some agreement, generally very favourable pricing if they are taking risk off the central book and less favourable if they are adding risk. These books can be run be completely independent teams which reduces coordination problems and IP leakage risk.
Now whenever a prop book thinks the price is going up they buy from the MM book which leaves the MM book short, they therefore skew their prices up to encourage others to buy from them and cover the short. The prop book alpha is transmitted to the MM book.
This simple but elegant mechanism solves many of the scaling problems inherent in running a MM firm. It is also why it is a mistake to think that you can “run over” a big market maker by trading heavily in one direction with them — they are capable of leaning
against or following your flow in their prop books depending on where they think the market is going. Fin.
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