Inside high-frequency electronic market making: how algorithms balance inventory risk, quote bid-ask spreads, and manage toxic orderflow in spot metals.
Behind every buy and sell button on your trading terminal sits an automated electronic market maker continuously quoting bid and ask prices. Understanding dealer inventory algorithms goes a long way toward minimizing execution slippage.
When heavy retail buying creates an excessive short inventory imbalance for a market maker, the algorithm skews its quotes higher to discourage buyers and attract sellers, naturally pulling the market toward mean equilibrium.
Toxic order flow refers to informed institutional orders (e.g. ahead of news breakouts) that move price immediately in one direction, inflicting losses on passive market makers.
Asian Session Orderflow Lead
Kaito Tanaka has worked extensively in precious metals trading, technical orderflow, and risk modeling. Every guide is reviewed for real-world trading relevance and mathematical consistency before publication.
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