We find that Robinhood ownership changes are unrelated with future returns, suggesting that zero-commission investors behave as noise traders. We exploit Robinhood platform outages to identify the causal effects of commission-free traders on financial markets. Exogenous negative shocks to...

In this paper we examine the effectiveness of modeling a paris-traded ETF portfolio as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Using ETF pairs that have similar references indexes, we apply maximum likelihood estimation to historical data in order to optimize trading signals for two strategies. Using...

Market fragmentation : monitoring and history -- Smart order routing -- Tick size; -- Information seeking and price discovery -- Dark pools and broker crossing networks -- Liquidity : the viewpoint of trading venues -- The agenda of high frequency traders -- The link between fragmentation and...

Key Features:Interdisciplinary comments on market microstructure (covering economy, quantitative finance, and econophysics)Covers a very large spectrum of phenomenon: high frequency trading, liquidity monitoring, the Flash Crash, systemic risk, fragmentation, Smart Order Routing, trade...

We use proprietary trade as well as account-level dataset of short sales to investigate the profitability of individual investors' short-selling in the Korean stock market from August 1, 2007 to May 31, 2010. An average profit is 26,810 Korean won (roughly USD 24.4) per trade per hour and we...

Using a large panel of U.S. accounts trades and positions, we show that retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises, especially for loser stocks, and such contrarian trading contributes to post earnings announcement drift (PEAD) and momentum. Indeed, when we double-sort...