Questions tagged [exchange]
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can I trade stocks in IEX with Interactive brokers? [closed]
I have accounts in a couple brokerages. I trade stocks just fine, however I miss any good understanding of some fundamentals, and how things work under the hood. I'm confused about stocks being traded ...
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What's the difference between a stock trading on an exchange and a stock being listed on an exchange?
As I recently learnt, all U.S. stocks are part of either Tape A, Tape B or C. Stocks listed on the NYSE are on Tape A, NASDAQ-listed stocks are on Tape C and everything else is on Tape B.
Of course, ...
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what is the exchange rate Expectation? I am confused about it
Suppose now the rate of EUR/USD is 1. and in half-year, maybe become 1.25EUR/USD, or 0.8 EUR/USD, the probability of each case is 0.5.
what's the Expectation of EUR/USD in half-year? And, what's the ...
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D-Limit and Crumbling Quote Indicator
I've been following the development of the D-Limit order at IEX for some time. In the last couple of days I see the SEC has been sued by Citadel Securities for approving this order type.
Can anyone ...
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How Crypto Exchanges handle overlapping orders when self trading is disabled?
I am unsure how a typical "matching engine" handles overlapping orders (in my case, Deribit). I would be just as interested in how any crypto exchange handles the situation. The user has ...
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What would be the point of Roll (1984) on measuring the effective bid-ask spread?
If you look at the original paper of Roll (1984), he explains that part of the transaction costs borne out by investors would be the bid-ask spread and that it was "fraught with measurement ...
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Exchangeability of random vector
I hope you can help me with this rather basic question that I asked myself. A random vector $(X_1,...,X_n)$ is said to be exchangeable if it has the same distribution as the permuted random vector $(...
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how to model the volatility of the currency exchange rate
I want to estimate/predict the volatility of the currency exchange rate.
I have checked in literature a few models from very simple PPP to econometric factor model forecasting, to GARCH (for ...
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Where can one get data concerning ETF holdings and changes in their holdings?
I am trying to write my masters thesis in finance and my topic will be ETF related. I wanted to ask whether it is possible to find data for an empirical analysis for my thesis. I have been searching ...
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Change of numeraire in exchange options with random interest rate
At time $t$, the market offers a (possibly random) bounded interest rate $r_t$ and two assets whose prices are given by
\begin{align*}
{{\rm d S^{(1)}_t \over S^{(1)}_t}} &= b^{(1)}_t d t + \...
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Are all companies that are part of an exchange required to trade on all trading days?
For example, if today is a trading day for NYSE or NASDAQ, does that mean that all companies which are part of these exchanges must allow stocks to be exchanged on that day? Can companies choose to ...
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Volatility of Exchange Option
I got a question and its partial solution, and have some doubts about the volatility of its geometric Brownian motion process:
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How would you price an exchange call option that pays $max(S_{...
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What does volume dimension means?
In an exchange documentation, I see a definition for Volume Dimension parameter,
Volume dimension: Shares are normally traded in Quantity, bonds in
Nominal.
Ok I can understand quantity but what ...
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CME Futures used in building LCH USD swap curve
To build a LCH swap curves, common benchmarks include cash rates, euro dollar futures and swaps. However, the euro dollar futures only exist in CME. So when you use euro dollar futures (only exist in ...
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Why does an exchange (IEX) need connection to other exchanges (like information about average prices)?
I have read "flash boys". The author describes how the Royal Bank of Canada uses THOR and an own SIP against certain practices of flash traders. I understand why a bank or a broker can make beneficial ...
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API for Stock Exchange and their Indexes data like Bloomberg [duplicate]
Actually I am looking for an API for stock exchange and their indexes data, And want to show data like this https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks
I searched various API provider, like ...
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Does EFP (Exchange Futures for Physical) Involves Cash Exchange?
I am new to the concept of Exchange Futures for Physical (EFP). According to some sources (link),
An Exchange for Physical (EFP) is a transaction involving the
simultaneous exchange between two ...
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Would it be fair an exchange where priority in the order book is the fee paid per share in the order?
Instead of matching orders in the order book by price then time, what are the consequences if orders are prioritised by price then fee paid per share in the order?
An idea similar to the way ...
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Do option contracts inherit the currency and exchange of the underlying?
Given an underlying (e.g. future or an index), would options on that underlying trade in the same currency and on the same exchange?
For example, options on FTSE100 index itself would trade in GBP on ...
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How does an exchange guarantee both legs of a calendar spread are executed atomically to give a specific spread?
In commodities/oil you have monthly contracts for a given Future, e.g. on CME the Crude Oil Futures (CL) monthly contracts can be trades, and have Globex codes such as CLZ8(Crude Oil Dec18 Future), ...
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Is there any literature on how stock exchanges guarantee consistency?
How do we know that artificial shares of some stock aren't created (perhaps going untracked) on exchanges. After all being man made digital systems they are prone to errors.
An example:
Suppose a ...
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QQQ fillings history
I'm trying to find Invesco QQQ Trust fillings for 2001-2018 time period, at least top 10 by year, do you know where I should search?
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Finding ETF Symbols for alpha vantange
I'd like to use the api of https://www.alphavantage.co/ which is pretty well documented, in terms of avaliable functions (but not parameters).
However, in order to get an API response, one needs to ...
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Why does the EUR/USD exchange rate is in fact USD/EUR from a mathematical point of view?, why finance does not use the mathematical notation?
I found this answers: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-EUR-USD-traded-like-that-and-not-like-USD-EUR, but I'm not quite satisfied, I still do not understand how arranging them according to "most ...
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Listed Company's Filing Deadline
Where could I get historical record of listed company's filing deadline that announced by SEC of Asia country & US?
I could get the latest deadline from respective SEC websites, but not changes ...
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What is the priority of the waiting non-matched bets, when a match becomes available in Betfair?
Say the back price (odds) on a market is $2.5$.
Then the following time sequence happens:
Bettor $A$ places a back bet with price $2.6$, for $\$100$ (it will not match)
Then bettor $B$ places a ...
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Literature recommendation on extreme asset price movements
I'm looking for good papers and books covering extreme stock price movements and mathematical theories of stock market crashs.
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Symbols for DAX from Alpha Vantage
I found the website https://www.alphavantage.co as an alternative for yahoo finance stock API.
I am interested in the top 30 DAX symbols, but I seem to cannot find them on Alpha Vantage. Is there a ...
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Does all (or any) exchange eats the positive difference between a buy order and a ask order?
Say Alice asks for 100 for 5 stocks, Rob asks 101 for 5 stocks.
Bob really wants to buy the stocks, so he bids $101 for 10 stocks.
Does Bob actually pays 100 * 5 + 101 * 5 + fee, or 101 * 10 + fee?
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How Market Exchange and Vendor entitlements/permission works?
I would like to know how market data entitlement and permissions works at Vendor level and exchange level?
if our firm receive Realtime data from Vendor or
directly from exchange..
What permissions ...
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Where can I see the bid stack for FX?
In trading FX binary options on brief tenors like 1 hour, I frequently see the FX price bounce right on the expiry boundary, like hourly or 20 minute boundaries.
I would like to figure out if these ...
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Are there any exchanges which match orders in timed intervals?
When an exchange works with an electronic order book and a matching engine, it usually tries to match orders in realtime during trading hours. That means when a new order comes in, it tries to match ...
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is there any alternative to FIX protocol
I have heard that FIX is one of the most widely used protocols for communication of securities exchange systems (correct me if its not!!).
My question is: is there any other well known protocol like ...
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Black & Scholes doesn't give current option market price
I'm trying to use the Black & Scholes to calculate the price for some options on the CBOE, but I'm having a hard time matching what I calculate with what i see on the market.
As an example I took ...
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What makes open-outcry preferable to electronic trading and what are its consequences?
I recently visited the trading floor of CBOE where especially the pits of SPX and VIX are relatively crowded and open outcry is still performed. I was surprised to hear that the traded volume is non ...
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How do exchanges decide the tick sizes?
How do exchanges decide the tick sizes? I wonder which factors are taken into account to make the decision.
I know that from time to time tick sizes are changed, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/...
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How do I estimate opening call auction order book for equities?
The opening call auction crossing order book is partially sealed, i.e. only the specialist can see quotes.
Is there a stock exchange where this data is available later to simulate the matching ...
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Rationale behind trading exchange-traded vs OTC products?
Let's say I am running a fund and I want to place some bets on the market (i.e. speculate) or hedge my current positions.
Starting from this, what would be my incentives to go for exchange-traded ...
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How is the “probabilities sum to $1$” rule enforced in betting exchanges?
Suppose that I am interested in a market on a betting exchange for the outright winner of some event, with three competitors, $A, B$ and $C$ with corresponding probabilities of winning $a, b$ and $c$. ...
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Model for target zone exchange rates
I just found a stochastic model for target zone exchange rates
$x_{t+1}=x_t+k+r(x_t-y)+ \tilde{\epsilon}$
where k is a drift term so equal $r-r_f$
r is lean againt the wind coefficient that ...
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Understanding the downsides in of trading in smaller exchange
I've been algo trading a small portfolio within NYSE for about a year now. And while do end up running positive P/L results are far from spectacular.
I ran a test using my strategy in OMX Stockholm ...
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How is the Blockchain.info Bitcoin Market Price Calculated?
I am about to apply traditional univariate GARCH tools to analyze the volatility of the Bitcoin - US Dollar exchange rate.
The index that I would like to investigate is the Bitcoin Market Price (BMP) ...
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cross currency swap expiry principal amount
Quick question on cross currency swaps. On expiry, principal payments are exchanged again. What happens when on expiry, the exchange rate is not the same as when the swap was first entered into?
The ...
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Is there a reliable International Currency Exchange rates provider in JSON format
I am looking for a currency exchange rate provider (preferrably) JSON format , that is free/open and also reliable.
Anybody here have any experiences working with some solutions like this?
Cheers!!
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Data on morocco exchange reserves
i'm trying to do some tests on exchange market pressure of morocco
Where can i find data on morocco exchange reserves
thanks
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FX options pricing exchange rate regimes
how can we estimate the impact of a exchange rate regime switch ( from fixed to float) on the options prices i'm talking about the moroccan case (EUR/MAD USD/MAD) options OTC , is there any stochastic ...
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Liqudity and Blockchains: How does settlement time affect real trading?
I am not sure, whether this question is on-topic here, but it is microstructure related, is of concern to practitioners and addresses a question which is often debated in academia.
When it comes to ...
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Do exchanges issue position ID after order execution?
The portfolio has two types of positions: asset and cash positions. Cash positions are easy. One currency has only one position, so you can add and subtract easily. Asset positions seem to be more ...
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Why circuit breakers can't prevent a flash crash
Sorry if this is a silly question.
It is my understanding that modern exchanges have "circuit breakers" which halt trading for a duration of minutes when there is significant volatility / price ...
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Understanding the GDAX price chart [closed]
I'm a beginner looking at the USD-BTC price chart on gdax:
https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD
It looks like this:
I'm trying to work out what the top graph means. Can anyone tell me what each of ...
