Foucault, Thierry; Moinas, Sophie; Theissen, Erik - 2004 - This Draft: May, 2004
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 …