Talks about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. This book enables readers to learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer networks, ECNs, crossing markets, and pink sheets. Series: Financial Management Association Survey & Synthesis Series. Num Pages: 656 pages, numerous tables and figures. BIC Classification: KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 187 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1310. . 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195144708
ISBN 13: 9780195144703
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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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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