If you're doing market making, note that you're more likely to get a buy order filled when the market is going down, and more likely to get a sell order filled

If you're doing market making, note that you're more likely to get a buy order filled when the market is going down, and more likely to get a sell order filled when the market is going up. This is the flip side of getting to "capture the spread". So in order to be successful, especially when your margins are razor thin (and they pretty much always are), you have to be very, very good at canceling your orders as quickly as possible any time it looks like the market is likely to move against you.