This study examines trading activities before and after the transfer of the FTSE 100 index futures contract from open outcry to electronic trading. Daily order imbalance exhibits strong serial persistence in the electronic limit order market, but not in open-outcry trading. Both excess buying...

On December 4, 2006, the side-by-side trading of Commodities Exchange (COMEX) Division’s gold and silver futures contracts was launched on Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Globex electronic trading platform, as a fight-back against the introduction of copies of these contracts from the Chicago...