Price Discovery in the U.S. Stock and Stock Options Markets

Price Discovery in the U.S. Stock and Stock Options Markets
Author: Richard Holowczak
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Total Pages: 42
Release: 2010
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Option prices vary with not only the underlying asset price, but also volatilities and higher moments. In this paper, we use a portfolio of options to seclude the value change of the portfolio from the impact of volatility and higher moments. We apply this portfolio approach to the price discovery analysis in the U.S. stock and stock options markets. We find that the price discovery on the directional movement of the stock price mainly occurs in the stock market, more so now than before as an increasing proportion of options market makers adopt automated quoting algorithms. Nevertheless, the options market becomes more informative during periods of significant options trading activities. The informativeness of the options quotes increases further when the options trading activity generates net sell or buy pressure on the underlying stock price, even more so when the pressure is consistent with deviations between the stock and the options market quotes.

Price Discovery in the U.S. Stock Options Market

Price Discovery in the U.S. Stock Options Market
Author: Yusif Simaan
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Total Pages: 38
Release: 2010
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Five U.S. exchanges compete to provide quotes and attract order flows on common set of stock options: the American Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the International Securities Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange, and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. In this paper, we investigate the price discovery in the U.S. stock options market. Our analysis shows that the newly founded, fully electronic International Securities Exchange has become the leader in providing options quotes that are the most informative, the most binding, and also the most executable.

Price Discovery in Futures and Options Markets

Price Discovery in Futures and Options Markets
Author: Naomi E. Boyd
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Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016
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We evaluate price discovery in the natural gas futures and futures options markets using a transaction based approach. By sampling market maker prices, we allow for a distinction between buy and sell prices, both directly from the futures market, and implied from the options market. Information shares are compared between futures and options markets as well as within the options market. Given the common architecture of the two markets, we find little price information generated in the options market. Within the options market, the highly levered out-of-the-money options offer less price discovery than other options. We attribute this to the higher transactions costs of out-of-the-money options.

Behavioral Finance

Behavioral Finance
Author: Lucy F. Ackert
Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Investments
ISBN: 9780538752862

The book begins by building upon the established, conventional principles of finance that you've have already learned in your principles course. The authors then move into psychological principles of behavioral finance, including heuristics and biases, overconfidence, emotion and social forces. You immediately see how human behavior influences the decisions of individual investors and professional finance practitioners, managers, and markets. You also gain a strong understanding of how social forces impact individuals' choices. The book clearly explains what behavioral finance indicates about observed market outcomes as well as how psychological biases potentially impact the behavior of managers. The book's solid academic approach provides opportunities for you to utilize theory and complete applications in every chapter as you learn the implications of behavioral finance on retirement, pensions, education, debiasing, and client management. The book spends a significant amount of time examining how today's practitioners can use behavioral finance to further their professional success.

Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action

Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action
Author: Deniz Ozenbas
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2022
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 3030748170

This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call rictions It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market trading, TraderEx, that enables students to implement trading decisions in different market scenarios and structures. Addressing these topics shines a bright light on how a real-world financial market operates, and the simulation provides students with an experiential learning opportunity that is informative and fun. Each of the chapters is designed so that it can be used as a stand-alone module in an existing economics, finance, or information science course. Instructor resources such as discussion questions, Powerpoint slides and TraderEx exercises are available online.

Market Microstructure

Market Microstructure
Author: Frédéric Abergel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119952786

The latest cutting-edge research on market microstructure Based on the December 2010 conference on market microstructure, organized with the help of the Institut Louis Bachelier, this guide brings together the leading thinkers to discuss this important field of modern finance. It provides readers with vital insight on the origin of the well-known anomalous "stylized facts" in financial prices series, namely heavy tails, volatility, and clustering, and illustrates their impact on the organization of markets, execution costs, price impact, organization liquidity in electronic markets, and other issues raised by high-frequency trading. World-class contributors cover topics including analysis of high-frequency data, statistics of high-frequency data, market impact, and optimal trading. This is a must-have guide for practitioners and academics in quantitative finance.

The Evolution of Price Discovery in US Equity and Derivatives Markets

The Evolution of Price Discovery in US Equity and Derivatives Markets
Author: Damien G. Wallace
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Total Pages: 41
Release: 2014
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This paper investigates changes in the price discovery portions for two popular securities based on the S&P 500 index, namely the S&P 500 E-mini futures and the SPDR Exchange Traded Fund (Ticker SPY) for the period Jan 2002 through Dec 2013. We show a significant change in the price discovery of these two securities over this period. The E-mini futures are dominant for price discovery until 2007, though on a steady decline. After 2007 the SPY ETF dominates the price discovery process.

Trading Costs and the Relative Rates of Price Discovery in Stock, Futures, and Option Markets

Trading Costs and the Relative Rates of Price Discovery in Stock, Futures, and Option Markets
Author: Jeff Fleming
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Release: 2012
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In frictionless and rational markets, perfect substitutes must have the same price. In markets with trading costs, however, price differences may be as large as the costs of executing the arbitrage between markets. Moreover, if trading costs differ, trading activity will tend to be concentrated in the lowest-cost market. This study tests the differential trading cost hypothesis by examining the rate at which new information is incorporated in stock, index futures, and index option prices. The lead/lag return relations among markets are consistent with their relative trading costs. Prices in the index derivative markets appear to lead prices in the stock market. At the same time, index futures prices tend to lead index option prices, and the prices of index calls and index puts move together. The trading cost hypothesis reconciles the disparity found between the temporal relation in the stock index/index derivative markets versus the stock/stock option markets.

Tumbling Titans? The Changing Patterns of Price Discovery in the U.S. Equity Market

Tumbling Titans? The Changing Patterns of Price Discovery in the U.S. Equity Market
Author: Joachim Grammig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018
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After the implementation of Regulation NMS in 2007, the U.S. equity market became highly fragmented. The traditional exchanges, in particular the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), lost substantial trading volume to the off-exchange market. We investigate the extent to which this development has been accompanied by a fragmentation of price discovery across established exchanges and off-exchange trading venues. The results of analyzing high frequency data of 91 U.S. stocks over a period of six years show that the contribution of the NYSE to price discovery has sharply declined; as of 2012, it even was overtaken by the Nasdaq. Trading in the off-exchange market also contributes to price discovery with rapidly increasing shares. Using daily estimates, we document a positive link between liquidity and price discovery contributions and offer evidence that liquidity Granger-causes price discovery for NYSE, Nasdaq, and trades reported through trade-reporting facilities.