We use proprietary brokerage data to study trading patterns within a well-known financial market bubble: that in the Chinese warrants market. Persistently successful investors traded very actively and exhibited characteristics of de facto market makers. Unskilled investors unprofitably...

This article visits the question of whether canceled warrants (CWs) have a positive effect on LME metal prices. To examine this question carefully, a regression model is applied. This paper finds a statistically significant positive link between CWs and LME metal prices, including aluminum,...

We investigate whether firms manage stock prices in anticipation of share issuance. Warrant exercise results in share issuance and warrant expiration dates are fixed years in advance, which precludes market timing. We predict firms manage stock prices to prevent (induce) warrant exercise when...

This paper develops a model of heterogeneous agents on an options market. On Paris Option Market, negotiators have different beliefs about future-at the volatility of the underlying. We assume in advance two groups; fundamentalists who believe in mean reversion and Chartists that incorporate...

This paper will argue that one can intelligently invest in the commodity markets and will briefly touch on three approaches, which in turn are drawn from “Intelligent Commodity Investing” (Risk Books, 2007). The first two sections of this paper will discuss two historically profitable...

We set out in this study to determine whether individuals with higher levels of financial literacy are more likely to be active participants in the derivatives markets. Our empirical results, based upon an official National Survey undertaken by the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan,...

In this paper, we empirically investigate warrant price behavior in the Chinese market – the largest warrant market in the world in terms of trading volume since 2006. By examining warrant return properties, volatility behavior, and pricing errors, we document a stylized fact that call...