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This paper utilizes a new approach to an examination of price impacts of speculators on futures markets. It focuses … price changes in those markets. The paper concludes that noncommercial traders are likely to switch between markets and add … to “hot money” flows, and that noncommercial traders follow price trends in energy markets rather than set them. …
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This article investigates price and trading volume relations for near term crude oil contracts at the New York … framework permits us to impose testable restrictions in considering the view that after-hours price changes and trading volumes … provide contemporaneous information in the daytime price discovery process. Furthermore, the reduced-form VAR allows testing …
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more effective than T-Bill futures in reducing price change risk. Moreover, in the short term, the performance of T … of trading. A portfolio model of hedging effectiveness is formulated to account for the constant yield price accumulation … over time on Treasury bills as distinguished from price changes due to instantaneous changes in yield. We test the T …
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According to the so-called "arc sine law," mechanical trading rules applied to price movements in financial assets will …
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The September 30, 1978 legislation (P.L. 95-405), which renewed the authority of the CFTC to regulate futures markets, directs the Commission to solicit the advice of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve before authorizing any additional futures contracts that specify delivery of U.S. Government...
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uses a descriptive statistic which was devised by Holbrook Working for the express purpose of analyzing price movements in … price movements that could not be detected by either the more traditional Box-Jenkins techniques or by spectral analysis. …
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In a recent article, Puglisi developed and tested a model for evaluating the efficiency of the Treasury bill futures market. He found that the market for Treasury bill futures was not efficient because arbitrage opportunities existed involving transactions in futures and outstanding Treasury...
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This paper presents a classroom experiment where students participate in a simulated futures market. This experiment can be run in about an hour and allows students to interact, negotiate, try different strategies, see how their accounts are closed, and observe how spot and futures markets...
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Until the existence of financial futures, testing the determinants and the informational content of futures market prices has been difficult because of the vagaries associated with commodity markets. In the case of Treasury bill futures, the existence of an active secondary market and the...
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This paper analyzes prices and volumes in the T-bill futures market using a physical analogy called Brownian Motion. The results are similar to those obtained in previous studies of stock markets. For prices, the T-bill futures market failed to exhibit the presence of resistance and support...
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