We use the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Commitment of Traders report to investigate the trading behaviour of traders in 12 commodity futures markets. We find that commercial traders are contrarian, consistent with the prevalence of short hedgers, while non-commercial traders follow...

This article examines the determinants of trading decisions, and the performance of trader types, in the context of the E-Mini S&P 500 futures and S&P 500 futures markets. Although the markets are very similar, essentially trading the same underlying asset but with different contract sizes, some...

The presence of investor sentiment pushes asset prices away from the equilibrium level justified by underlying fundamentals. While sentiment is not directly observable, identifying appropriate proxies and, quantifying the impact of sentiment on asset prices is an important topic. Asset prices...

This article examines the relationship between changes in the level of investor fear (measured by VIX) and financial market returns. We document a statistically significant relationship, across asset classes, consistent with a flight to quality as investor fear increases. As VIX increase there...

This note examines the relationship between changes in levels of investor fear (measured by VIX) and FX market returns. Our empirical results indicate a negative relationship between daily returns on high-interest rate (investing) currencies and changes in VIX, while the association is positive...

This paper examines the patterns of trading behaviour, in the period surrounding monetary policy announcements. Utilizing a high-frequency data-set, with broker identifiers enabling classification of trades executed through institutional and retail brokers, I investigate all trades submitted on...

We investigate the information acquisition role of dark pool trading. The implementation of the European double volume cap (DVC) mechanism acts as an exogenous shock to help us understand how restrictions on dark trading affect the price discovery process for German stocks. Using the price jump...

Motivated by the lure of cryptocurrencies for retail investors, whose concentrated holdings are particularly exposed to price crash risk, we study the relationship between investor attention and crash risk. Adopting a quantile regression approach, we find that the connection is concentrated in...

In addition to a myriad of industrial uses, precious metals continue to play an important role in the global financial system; they are increasingly popular as an investment and form part of a well-diversified portfolio in addition to acting as central bank reserves. Understanding how...

We examine institutional trading in relation to changes in consensus recommendations over time. We find that pre-Reg FD's positive contemporaneous relation between hedge fund trading and change in consensus becomes negative after Reg FD, but the positive relation between non-hedge fund trading...