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title: Competition vs. Collusion in Trading
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4980072/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4980072
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4980072
featured: 2024-10-09
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Competition vs. Collusion in Trading

The study proposes that collusion in trading may not always be advantageous for informed investors, particularly when there's high uncertainty about other traders' actions, as individual profits in competition can surpass total profits in collusion.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4980072
- Identifier: SSRN 4980072
- Released: 2024-10-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 69 (2024-10-09): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-10-09/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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