Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners - Hardcover

Harris, Larry

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9780195144703: Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195144708 ISBN 13: 9780195144703
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer networks, ECNs (electronic communications networks), crossing markets, and pink sheets. Also covered in this text are single price auctions, open outcry auctions, and brokered markets limit orders, market orders, and stop orders. Finally, the author covers the areas of program trades, block trades, and short trades, price priority, time precedence, public order precedence, and display precedence, insider trading, scalping, and bluffing, and investing, speculating, and gambling.

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About the Author

Larry Harris holds the Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. In July 2002, Professor Harris was appointed Chief Economist of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served until June 2004.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195144708
ISBN 13 
9780195144703
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
656
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