Concept Notes· Quant
Market Microstructure
Microstructure is how price actually forms: a queue of resting orders, consumed and refreshed by incoming flow. For a market maker the spread is the fee for providing liquidity, and adverse selection is the cost of being run over by someone who knows more. The interview questions live in that tension.
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