Quote stuffing

Quote stuffing is flooding a venue with order messages in order to slow the processing of market data for other participants. Its target is the infrastructure rather than the inference other traders draw.

manipulation techniques · updated 2026-11-06

Where does quote stuffing come up?

This term is used in the following manipulation techniques, each explained in full on its own page.

• Quote stuffing — Quote stuffing is flooding a trading venue with order messages in order to slow down the processing of market data, so that competing participants act on prices that are already stale.

See also

• Order-to-trade ratio — The order-to-trade ratio is the number of order messages a participant sends for each contract or share actually executed. High ra…
• Latency arbitrage — Latency arbitrage is profiting from being able to act on a price change before slower participants can update their own quotes. It…

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