Editor’s Letter

Assessing trader performance is challenging because traders often vary their strategies depending on the objectives of each trade. To open the Summer issue, Bacidore, Berkow, Polidore, and Saraiya present a methodology for identifying the strategies used by traders. By identifying these, trading cost analysis can be done by strategy. This is followed by Abergel and Zaatour’s study of the use of high frequency data in the realized variance process and the effect on option prices. A framework to evaluate limit order tactics is provided by Markov. Luo discusses the representativeness heuristic and its effect on asset prices, concluding that it causes asset prices to overreact to new information close to the expected payoff of the risky asset and causes it to under react to new information far above or below the expected payoff of the risky asset.

Black, Miao, and Ramchander examine S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 equity index futures and discuss the intra-day price relationship between electronic and floor trading markets. Next, Vaidyanathan presents a framework for estimating the liquidity premium in developing markets. The suitability of the foreign exchange market for high frequency trading is presented by Mangram. The trading restrictions implemented in 2008 extensively prohibited short selling. We close this issue with Yerkes’ discussion of the trading ban and the effects it has had.

As always, we welcome your submissions. Please encourage those you know who have good papers or have made good presentations on trading-related subjects to submit them to us. Submission guidelines are included in this issue. We value your comments and suggestions, so please email us at journals{at}investmentresearch.org.

TOPICS: Statistical methods, risk management, emerging, exchanges/markets/clearinghouses

Brian Bruce

Editor-in-Chief

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