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Trading and exchanges: market microstructure for practitioners

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Financial Management Association survey and synthesisPublication details: Oxford University Press 2003 ChennaiDescription: xii, 656 p.: ill. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9780195144703
  • 9780199726547
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.64 H2T7
Online resources: Summary: This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will 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 program 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. https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/trading-and-exchanges-9780195144703?cc=us&lang=en&
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Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Trading Stories

Part I: The Structure of Trading
3. The Trading Industry
4. Orders and Order Properties
5. Market Structures
6. Order-Driven Market Mechanisms
7. Brokers

Part II: The Benefits of Trade
8. Why People Trade
9. Good Markets

Part III: Speculators
10. Informed Traders and Market Efficiency
11. Order Anticipators
12. Bluffing and Price Manipulation

Part IV: Liquidity Suppliers
13. Dealers
14. Bid/Ask Spreads
15. Block Trading
16. Value-Motivated Trainers
17. Arbitrageurs
18. Buy-side Trading Strategies

Part V: Origins of Liquidity and Volatility
19. Liquidity
20. Volatility

Part VI: Evaluation and Prediction
21. Liquidity and Transaction Cost Measurement
22. Performance Evaluation and Prediction

Part VII: Market Structures
23. Index and Portfolio Markets
24. Specialists
25. Internalization, Preferencing, and Crossing
26. Competition Within and Among Markets
27. Floor Versus Automated Trading Systems
28. Bubbles, Crashes, and Circuit Breakers
29. Insider Trading

This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will 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 program 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.

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