We study differences in trading between US equity market participants with high and low cancellation activity. Traders with high (low) cancellation rates are significant net suppliers (takers) of liquidity and, overall, less (more) informed about future prices. The findings suggest that recent...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine US equity traders’ use of market orders versus price contingent orders with respect to information content. Design/methodology/approach – Price changes following market and price contingent order submissions are analysed. Findings – It is...

Prior research indicates that both execution speed and cost are important to traders, but that these two dimensions of execution quality are negatively related across U.S. equity markets. In our paper, we examine how U.S. equity traders, who are (un)informed about future price changes, trade-off...

We provide a closer look at the trading dynamics which may give rise to the positive relationship between market trading volume and its lagged returns. Chinese market turnover increases sharply with past day returns. A comprehensive dataset which facilitates the tracing of trading activities...

We examine intraday execution quality patterns on Nasdaq stocks using proprietary order-level data from a US broker dealer. Orders submitted midday execute slower than orders submitted around the open and close. However, midday orders have lower execution costs. Our results indicate that...