This study examines market behaviour around trading halts associated with information releases on the Australian Stock Exchange, which operates an open electronic limit order book. Using the Lee, Ready and Seguin (1994) pseudo-halt methodology, we find trading halts increase both volume and...

We study fragmentation of equity trading using a model of imperfect competition among exchanges. In the model, increased competition drives down trading fees. However, additional arbitrage opportunities arise in fragmented markets, intensifying adverse selection. These opposing forces imply that...

This study investigates the determinants of liquidity and execution probability in an operated dark pool. We analyze a unique set of data collated from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that allows the identification trades and orders in its Centre Point dark pool. This study contributes...

In this paper, we apply the 7,846 technical trading rules considered by Sullivan et al. (1999) to a stock index, some individual stocks, some currencies and some interest rate futures contracts traded in the Australian financial markets. Size distortions due to data-snooping are avoided by using...

This paper considers short sellers' activities when equity analysts are over-optimistic about a stock's future performance. We use a novel dataset of daily aggregated stock lending information for stocks short sold on the Australian Security Exchange (ASX) during the period of October 2005 to...

We study the intra-day impact of algorithmic trading on the futures market to increase our understanding of algorithmic trading and its role in the price formation process. First, we find that algorithmic trading provides liquidity when the spread is wide and that algorithms enter the market at...

Theoretical models of limit order books populated with liquidity traders suggest a link between order aggressiveness, spreads and the cost of waiting for order execution. We directly test these models using an experimental setting where waiting time is important for traders, namely the...