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Closing Call Auctions at the Index Futures Market
Author(s) -
Hagströmer Björn,
Nordén Lars
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of futures markets
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.88
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1096-9934
pISSN - 0270-7314
DOI - 10.1002/fut.21603
Subject(s) - patience , closing (real estate) , futures contract , market liquidity , futures market , economics , order (exchange) , financial economics , index (typography) , common value auction , microeconomics , monetary economics , computer science , finance , psychology , social psychology , world wide web
We investigate the effects from the introduction of a closing call auction (CCA) at the index futures market. Limit order book models, where trader patience determines trading strategies, predict that a CCA increases trader patience and, hence, improves closing price accuracy and end‐of‐day liquidity. We find that the introduction leads to increased trader patience, improved futures closing price accuracy, unaffected tightness and resiliency, and decreased depth. Decreased depth is likely due to less order fishing activity. With the CCA, opportunistic patient traders' posting of limit orders deep in the order book, to profit from impatient traders, is no longer feasible. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 34:299–319, 2014