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Microstructure Analysis: measuring the quality of the flow

The complete guide to the measurement bench: each metric explained one by one, with its question, its calculation, its reading and its trap, plus diagrams of the mechanisms and screenshots of every view.

What this module does, and what it is not

What it needs to work

The screen layout

The row of measures

The measures, one by one

VPIN, flow toxicity

Why the bucket size is a real setting

Signed VPIN, the informed side

Book imbalance

Resting depth, and spread

Resilience, or what a wall is really worth

The burst threshold, and why it is measured

Refill bias

Canceled to filled, the cancel-to-trade

Events per trade

Kyle’s lambda

Flow pressure

Holes, cliffs and walls

Impact and slippage

Effective spread, realized spread, adverse selection

The book ratios

Latencies, and the ones that do not exist here

Flux tab: the curve and what you overlay on it

The event layers

A measure’s detail window

The same frame, on resilience

Relief tab: the book in three dimensions

What the relief adds to a snapshot

Reading a relief: the window changes what you see

Impact tab: what your size really costs

The cost curve, read from left to right

Comparing execution strategies

Étude tab: the module puts itself to the test

A threshold that never fired

The true cost of liquidity, on screen

Ratios tab: the mechanics of the book

The reading rail

The embedded DOM

Source and health: what the module knows about its data

Setting up the module

Triggers and alert log

Link, detach, ask

A session routine

What this module does not measure