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 2026-09-23
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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