sharpens the picture of intra-day volatility accentuations: they are concentrated within the first two minutes after the open … Nasdaq’s calls have reduced this volatility, reorganized order flow, and lowered volatility persistence. Opening and closing … innovation -- Opening Price ; Closing Price ; Price Discovery ; Intra-Day Volatility ; Market Microstructure ; Equity Markets …

volatility, I conclude that after-auction periods take over a large share of infrequent rebalancing, being attractive for a …

We develop a model of limit order trading in which some traders have better information on future price volatility. As … visible. In either design, a large (resp. small) spread signals that informed limit order traders expect volatility to be high … significantly. Consistent with our model, we also find that the size of the spread is a predictor of future price volatility and …