Poster
Adaptive Market Making via Online Learning
Jacob D Abernethy · Satyen Kale

Sat Dec 7th 07:00 -- 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor #None
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We consider the design of strategies for \emph{market making} in a market like a stock, commodity, or currency exchange. In order to obtain profit guarantees for a market maker one typically requires very particular stochastic assumptions on the sequence of price fluctuations of the asset in question. We propose a class of spread-based market making strategies whose performance can be controlled even under worst-case (adversarial) settings. We prove structural properties of these strategies which allows us to design a master algorithm which obtains low regret relative to the best such strategy in hindsight. We run a set of experiments showing favorable performance on real-world price data.

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Jacob D Abernethy (University of Michigan)
Satyen Kale (Google)

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