Demystifying
ATS Segmentation & Adverse Selection
In this ever-evolving ATS landscape, buy-side institutional traders are faced with a challenge to source non-toxic liquidity from a growing number of venues that each grade and segment liquidity differently. Understanding those differences means reading every ATS-N filing, one by one. We have done that work for you. In this 30-minute session, Hitesh Mittal and Kathryn Berkow summarize the learnings, then show how top-tier segments actually perform venue by venue, so you can see where segmentation helps and how to use it to achieve better execution.
What you'll learn:
- Interpreting markouts and adverse selection
- Best practices for measuring markouts
- What is segmentation and how venues grade liquidity
- Different types of segmentation (Qualitative and Quantitative)
- Segmentation effectiveness by venues
Speakers:

Hitesh Mittal
25+ years experience in algorithmic trading
Previously at AQR and ITG

Kathryn Berkow
15+ years of experience in algorithmic trading
Previously at Morgan Stanley