Trading and Exchanges: Microstructure for Practitioners - Softcover

Larry Harris

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Synopsis

The only comprehensive volume designed to show how markets work. Explains why some traders profit while others fall short of success. 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 Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance at Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

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ISBN 10:  0195144708 ISBN 13:  9780195144703
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002
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