Using a unique proprietary data set of trades by all large traders in the crude oil, gasoline, and heating oil futures markets, we explore determinants of their individual trading profits/losses. Consistent with the risk premium hypothesis, hedgers' mean trading profits are significantly...

Trading stops are often used by traders to risk manage their positions. In this note, we show how to derive optimal trading stops for generic algorithmic trading strategies when the P&L of the position is modelled by a Markov modulated diffusion. Optimal stop levels are derived by maximising the...

One rationale for the regulation of algorithmic and high-frequency trading is the perception that algorithms are prone to overreacting to market events, for example by producing unanticipated interaction effects that exacerbate volatility and disrupt efficient price formation. This articles...

We apply the well-known CUSUM, the Girshick-Rubin, the Graversen-Peskir- Shiryaev and an improved alteration of the Brodsky-Darkovsky algorithm as trading strategies involving only mutually exclusive long positions in cash and the DAX at Xetra intraday auction prices. We select optimal pairs of...