Abhyankar, A.; Copeland, L. S.; Wong, W. - In: The European Journal of Finance 5 (1999) 2, pp. 123-139
trading volume, volatility and the quoted bid-ask spread in the market for FTSE-100 index futures. We document a number of … regularities in the pattern of daily returns and volatility of the cash index. We also document intraday patterns in the basis, i … that, while both volume and volatility exhibit a U-shaped pattern over the day, movements in the spread tend if anything to …