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Financial Markets and Trading: An Introduction to Market Microstructure and Trading Strategies
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Financial Markets and Trading: An Introduction to Market Microstructure and Trading Strategies

by Anatoly B. Schmidt
August 2011
Beginner
208 pages
5h 12m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Financial Markets and Trading: An Introduction to Market Microstructure and Trading Strategies

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE Market Microstructure

CHAPTER 1 Financial Markets: Traders, Orders, and Systems

Traders

Orders

The Bid/Ask Spread

Liquidity

Market Structures

Continuous Order-Driven Markets

Oral Auctions

Call Auctions

Quote-Driven Markets and Hybrid Markets

CHAPTER 2 Modern Financial Markets

The U.S. Equity Markets

The NYSE

NASDAQ

Alternative Trading Systems

European Equity Markets

Spot FX Market

The U.S. Fixed Income Markets

High-Frequency Trading

CHAPTER 3 Inventory Models

Risk-Neutral Models

The Garman's Model

Amihud-Mendelson Model

Models with Risk Aversion

What Is Risk Aversion?

The Stoll's Model

CHAPTER 4 Market Microstructure: Information-Based Models

Kyle's Model

One-Period Model

Multi-Period and Multi-Insider Models

Glosten-Milgrom Model

Further Developments

CHAPTER 5 Models of the Limit-Order Markets

The CMSW Model

The Parlour Model

The Foucault Model

Equilibrium at Zero Volatility

Volatility Effect

New Developments

CHAPTER 6 Empirical Market Microstructure

Roll's Model

The Glosten-Harris Model

Structural Models

Recent Empirical Findings

Equity Markets

Global FX Spot Market

PART TWO Market Dynamics

CHAPTER 7 Statistical Distributions and Dynamics of Returns

Prices and Returns

The Efficient Market Hypothesis

Random Walk and Predictability of Returns

Recent Empirical Findings

Fractals in Finance

CHAPTER 8 Volatility

Basic Notions

Conditional Heteroskedasticity

Realized Volatility

Market Risk Measurement

CHAPTER 9 Agent-Based Modeling of Financial ...

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