Price limits in FX algos: fill your boots

Do limits affect performance? Double machine learning helps answer the question, says BestX quant.

Foreign exchange execution algorithms often contain price limits, but there is a common concern in the market that setting the thresholds too close to the mid-price will hamstring the algo and hurt its performance. Two experiments we have run show traders need not worry.

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