Many questions about institutional trading behavior can only be answered if one can track institutional equity ownership continuously, yet institutional ownership data are only available on quarterly reporting dates. We infer institutional trading behavior from the “tape”, the Transactions...

The aim of this paper is to determine the potential profitability of technical analysis applied on the foreign exchange market. Eight simple rules of trading are tested in five markets. Only long positions are tracked and reported. When neither commissions nor indexation are included in the...

This paper reconsiders return-volume dependence for the U.S. and six international equity markets. We contribute to previous work by proposing surprise volume as a new proxy for private information flow and apply extreme value theory in studying dependence for large volume and return, i.e. under...

Several trading rules are analyzed using all daily returns on every Ibex future contracts, since market data from MEFF was available on April 20th, 1992 till March 31st, 2000. The analyses are: calendar anomalies and technical indicators based on moving averages. In an informal test, results are...

Risk exposure can be efficiently optimized in practical situations, using a new apporach to identification of investor's risk aversion.

OBJETIVOS: Dar a conocer los principios y técnicas de la contabilidad de costos; Permitir el análisis de la contabilidad de costos desde la perspectiva de la gestión de empresas; Capacitar al alumno en el manejo y uso de la información de costos para lograr una eficiente administración a...

We study option market design by providing a theoretical motivation and comprehensive empirical analysis of two fundamentally different option market structures, the Eurex derivatives exchange and Euwax, the world’s largest market for bank-issued options. These markets exist side-by- side,...

The model of Technical Analysis goes against the fulfillment of the weak form of the Hypothesis of Efficient Market raised by Fama (1970). Nevertheless, recently some studies provide evidence with probable prediction of the expected returns based on the past returns. In particular, the...

Recently, the continuous double auction, i.e. the trading mechanism used in the majority of the financial markets, is the subject of an extensive study. In the present paper, a model of the continuous double auction with the completely random flow of the limit orders is studied. The main result...