Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 133-150
doi:10.1155/S1173912697000126

Combination trading with limit orders

Abstract

We model the exchange of commodities that are contingent upon each other, when traders place mostly limit orders. Examples include: 1) a market of financial futures where future spreads are also traded, 2) a market of mutual funds and stocks, 3) a market of options and stocks, under the viewpoint that they are both combinations of Arrow-Debreu securities. We prove that consistent prices are optimal. We develop a fixed-point algorithm to compute an optimal price and allocation. The algorithm combines ideas from contraction mapping theory and from homotopy theory. It is much faster than a traditional linear programming approach.