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Trading and Exchanges

  • Trading and Exchanges

  • Market Microstructure for Practitioners

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    • Product code: 16363
    • ISBN: 0195144708, ISBN13: 9780195144703, 656 pages, hardback
      Published by Oxford University Press, 2002
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    Description of Trading and Exchanges

    This text is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade and the rules that govern it. Readers should learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue traders and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer networks, ECNs (electronic communications networks), crossing markets and pink sheets.

    Also covered in this text are single price auctions, open outcry auctions and brokered markets limit orders, market orders and stop orders. Finally, the author covers the areas of programme trades, block trades and short trades, price priority, time precedence, public order precedence and display precedence, insider trading, scalping and bluffing and investing, speculating and gambling.

    Contents of Trading and Exchanges

    Introduction
    Trading Stories

    Part I: The Structure of Trading; The Trading Industry; Orders and Order Properties; Market Structures; Order-Driven Market Mechanisms; Brokers

    Part II: The Benefits of Trade; Why People Trade; Good Markets

    Part III: Speculators; Informed Traders and Market Efficiency; Order Anticipators; Bluffing and Price Manipulation

    Part IV: Liquidity Suppliers; Dealers; Bid/Ask Spreads; Block Trading; Value-Motivated Trainers; Arbitrage; Buy-side Trading Strategies

    Part V: Origins of Liquidity and Volatility; Understanding Liquidity; Understanding Volatility

    Part VI: Evaluation and Prediction; Measuring Liquidity and Transaction Costs; Performance Evaluation and Prediction

    Part VII: Market Structures; Index and Portfolio Markets; Specialists; Internalization, Preferencing, and Crossing; Competition within and among Markets; Floor versus Automated Trading Systems; Bubbles, Crashes, and Circuit Breakers; Insider Trading; Summary of Market Microstructure
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