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FIN 615

Trading and Financial Markets

3 units

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Orders and their characteristics
  • Types of orders
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each order type

Readings

  • Handbook, Elsevier, 469-504
    unspecified
  • M. Fleming (1997), The round-the-clock market for U.S. treasury securities, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, 9-32
    unspecified
  • M. Brunnermeier and S. Nagel (2004), Hedge funds and the technology bubble, Journal of Finance 59, 2013-2040
    unspecified
  • N. Barberis and R. Thaler (2003), A survey of behavioral finance, in Handbook of the Economics of
    unspecified
  • Finance, Eds. G. Constantinides, M. Harris and R. Stulz, Elsevier
    unspecified
  • C. Neely (1997), Technical analysis in the foreign exchange market: A layman’s guide, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
    unspecified
  • I. Aldridge (2013), High-frequency trading: A practical guide to algorithmic strategies and trading systems, Wiley
    unspecified
  • Y. Amihud and H. Mendelson (1986), Asset pricing and the bid-ask spread, Journal of Financial Economics 17, 223-249
    unspecified
  • Y. Amihud and H. Mendelson (1987), Trading mechanisms and stock returns: An empirical investigation, Journal of Finance 62, 533-553
    unspecified
  • Y. Amihud, H. Mendelson and M. Murgia (1990), Stock market microstructure and return volatility: Evidence from Italy, Journal of Banking and Finance 14, 423-440
    unspecified
  • A. Ang and J. Chen (2002), Asymmetric correlations of equity portfolios, Journal of Financial Economics 63, 443-494
    unspecified
  • J. Bacidore, Algorithmic trading: A practitioner's guide, TBG press
    unspecified
  • S. Badrinath, J. Kale and T. Noe (1995), Of shepherds, sheep, and the cross- autocorrelations in equity returns, Review of Financial Studies 8, 401-430
    unspecified
  • W. Bagehot (1971), The only game in town, Financial Analysts Journal 27, 12-14, 22
    unspecified
  • G. Benston and R. Hagerman (1974), Determinants of bid-asked spreads in the over-the- counter market, Journal of Financial Economics 1, 353-364
    unspecified
  • M. Brennan and A. Subrahmanyam (1996), Market microstructure and asset pricing: On the compensation for illiquidity in stock returns, Journal of Financial Economics 41, 441-464
    unspecified
  • M. Brennan, N Jegadeesh and B Swaminathan (1993), Investment analysis and the adjustment of stock prices to common information, Review of Financial Studies 6, 799-824
    unspecified
  • K. Chan, K. C. Chan and A. Karolyi (1991), Intraday volatility in the stock index and stock index futures markets, Review of Financial Studies 4, 657-684
    unspecified
  • T. Chordia, R. Roll and A. Subrahmanyam (2002), Order imbalance, liquidity, and market returns, Journal of Financial Economics 65, 111-130
    unspecified
  • T. Chordia and B. Swaminathan (2000), Trading volume and cross-autocorrelations in stock returns, Journal of Finance 55, 913-935
    unspecified
  • M. Cooper, O. Dimitrov and R. Rau (2001), A rose.com by any other name, Journal of Finance 56, 2371-2388
    unspecified
  • D. Cutler, J. Poterba and L. Summers (1989), What moves stock prices?, Journal of Portfolio Management, 15, 4-12
    unspecified
  • M. Fan and R. Lyons (2003), Customer trades and extreme events in foreign exchange, in Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honor of Charles
    unspecified
  • Goodhart, Paul Mizen (ed.), Edward Elgar, 160-179
    unspecified
  • K. French and R. Roll (1986), Stock return variances: The arrival of information and the reaction of traders, Journal of Financial Economics 17, 5-26
    unspecified
  • L. Frieder and J. Zittrain (2007), Spam works: Evidence from stock touts and corresponding market activity, Working paper, Purdue and Oxford
    unspecified
  • L. Glosten and L. Harris (1988), Estimating the components of the bid-ask spread, Journal of Financial Economics 21, 123-142
    unspecified
  • A. Hameed, W. Kang and S. Vishwanathan (2006), Stock market declines and liquidity, Working paper, Duke University
    unspecified
  • J. Harford and A. Kaul (2005), Correlated order flow: Pervasiveness, sources, and pricing effects, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 40, 29-55
    unspecified
  • L. Harris (2003) Trading and exchanges: Market microstructure for practitioners, OUP
    unspecified
  • J. Hasbrouck (2005), Trading costs and returns for U.S. equities: The evidence from daily data, WP 2005
    unspecified
  • J. Hasbrouck (2007), Empirical market microstructure: The institutions, economics, and econometrics of securities trading, OUP
    unspecified
  • T. Hendershott, C. Jones and A. Menkveld (2011), Does algorithmic trading improve liquidity?, Journal of Finance 66, 1-33
    unspecified
  • S. Kandel, A. Ofer and O. Sarig (1993), Learning from trading, Review of Financial Studies 6, 507-526
    unspecified
  • D. Keim and A. Madhavan (1995), Anatomy of the trading process: Empirical evidence on the behavior of institutional traders, Journal of Financial Economics 37, 371-398
    unspecified
  • C. Lee and M. Ready (1991), Inferring trade direction from intraday data, Journal of Finance 46, 733-746
    unspecified
  • C. Lee, M. Ready and P. Seguin (1994), Volume, volatility, and NYSE trading halts, Journal of Finance 49, 183-214
    unspecified
  • M. Lewis (2014), Flash boys, Norton
    unspecified
  • A. Lo and C. MacKinlay (1990), When are contrarian profits due to stock market overreaction?, Review of Financial Studies 3, 175-208
    unspecified
  • R. Lyons (1995), Tests of microstructural hypotheses in the foreign exchange market, Journal of Financial Economics 39, 321-351
    unspecified
  • S. Nagel (2012), Evaporating liquidity, Review of Financial Studies 25, 2005-2039
    unspecified
  • M. O’Hara (1995), Market microstructure theory, Blackwell
    unspecified
  • P. Pasquariello and C. Vega (2007), Informed and strategic order flow in the bond markets, Review of Financial Studies 20, 1975-2019
    unspecified
  • L. Pástor and R. Stambaugh (2003), Liquidity risk and expected stock returns; Journal of Political Economy 111, 642-85
    unspecified
  • D. Rime (2003), New electronic trading systems in foreign exchange markets in the New Economy Handbook, 469-504
    unspecified
  • R. Roll (1988), R2, The Journal of Finance 43, 541-566
    unspecified
  • P. Schultz (2001), Corporate bond trading costs: A peek behind the curtain, Journal of Finance 56, 677-698
    unspecified
  • H. Stoll and R. Whaley (1990), Stock market structure and volatility, Review of Financial Studies 3, 37-71
    unspecified
  • R. Wermers (1999), Mutual fund herding and the impact on stock prices, Journal of Finance 54, 581-622
    unspecified
Fall 2025

Topics

  • Orders and their characteristics
  • Types of orders
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each order type

Readings

  • The recommended textbook for the course is Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris. I will hand out power point slides, which will be the primar y basis for the class discussion, project and exams. The discussion in the book, while adding depth to the lectures, is dated at several points and fails to provide adequate coverage in areas, and the lectures will fill these gaps
    recommended
  • Handbook, Elsevier, 469-504
    unspecified
  • M. Fleming (1997), The round-the-clock market for U.S. treasury securities, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, 9-32
    unspecified
  • M. Brunnermeier and S. Nagel (2004), Hedge funds and the technology bubble, Journal of Finance 59, 2013-2040
    unspecified
  • N. Barberis and R. Thaler (2003), A survey of behavioral finance, in Handbook of the Economics of
    unspecified
  • Finance, Eds. G. Constantinides, M. Harris and R. Stulz, Elsevier
    unspecified
  • C. Neely (1997), Technical analysis in the foreign exchange market: A layman’s guide, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
    unspecified
  • I. Aldridge (2013), High-frequency trading: A practical guide to algorithmic strategies and trading systems, Wiley
    unspecified
  • Y. Amihud and H. Mendelson (1986), Asset pricing and the bid-ask spread, Journal of Financial Economics 17, 223-249
    unspecified
  • Y. Amihud and H. Mendelson (1987), Trading mechanisms and stock returns: An empirical investigation, Journal of Finance 62, 533-553
    unspecified
  • Y. Amihud, H. Mendelson and M. Murgia (1990), Stock market microstructure and return volatility: Evidence from Italy, Journal of Banking and Finance 14, 423-440
    unspecified
  • A. Ang and J. Chen (2002), Asymmetric correlations of equity portfolios, Journal of Financial Economics 63, 443-494
    unspecified
  • J. Bacidore, Algorithmic trading: A practitioner's guide, TBG press
    unspecified
  • S. Badrinath, J. Kale and T. Noe (1995), Of shepherds, sheep, and the cross- autocorrelations in equity returns, Review of Financial Studies 8, 401-430
    unspecified
  • W. Bagehot (1971), The only game in town, Financial Analysts Journal 27, 12-14, 22
    unspecified
  • G. Benston and R. Hagerman (1974), Determinants of bid-asked spreads in the over-the- counter market, Journal of Financial Economics 1, 353-364
    unspecified
  • M. Brennan and A. Subrahmanyam (1996), Market microstructure and asset pricing: On the compensation for illiquidity in stock returns, Journal of Financial Economics 41, 441-464
    unspecified
  • M. Brennan, N Jegadeesh and B Swaminathan (1993), Investment analysis and the adjustment of stock prices to common information, Review of Financial Studies 6, 799-824
    unspecified
  • K. Chan, K. C. Chan and A. Karolyi (1991), Intraday volatility in the stock index and stock index futures markets, Review of Financial Studies 4, 657-684
    unspecified
  • T. Chordia, R. Roll and A. Subrahmanyam (2002), Order imbalance, liquidity, and market returns, Journal of Financial Economics 65, 111-130
    unspecified
  • T. Chordia and B. Swaminathan (2000), Trading volume and cross-autocorrelations in stock returns, Journal of Finance 55, 913-935
    unspecified
  • M. Cooper, O. Dimitrov and R. Rau (2001), A rose.com by any other name, Journal of Finance 56, 2371-2388
    unspecified
  • D. Cutler, J. Poterba and L. Summers (1989), What moves stock prices?, Journal of Portfolio Management, 15, 4-12
    unspecified
  • M. Fan and R. Lyons (2003), Customer trades and extreme events in foreign exchange, in Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honor of Charles
    unspecified
  • Goodhart, Paul Mizen (ed.), Edward Elgar, 160-179
    unspecified
  • K. French and R. Roll (1986), Stock return variances: The arrival of information and the reaction of traders, Journal of Financial Economics 17, 5-26
    unspecified
  • L. Frieder and J. Zittrain (2007), Spam works: Evidence from stock touts and corresponding market activity, Working paper, Purdue and Oxford
    unspecified
  • L. Glosten and L. Harris (1988), Estimating the components of the bid-ask spread, Journal of Financial Economics 21, 123-142
    unspecified
  • A. Hameed, W. Kang and S. Vishwanathan (2006), Stock market declines and liquidity, Working paper, Duke University
    unspecified
  • J. Harford and A. Kaul (2005), Correlated order flow: Pervasiveness, sources, and pricing effects, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 40, 29-55
    unspecified
  • L. Harris (2003) Trading and exchanges: Market microstructure for practitioners, OUP
    unspecified
  • J. Hasbrouck (2005), Trading costs and returns for U.S. equities: The evidence from daily data, WP 2005
    unspecified
  • J. Hasbrouck (2007), Empirical market microstructure: The institutions, economics, and econometrics of securities trading, OUP
    unspecified
  • T. Hendershott, C. Jones and A. Menkveld (2011), Does algorithmic trading improve liquidity?, Journal of Finance 66, 1-33
    unspecified
  • S. Kandel, A. Ofer and O. Sarig (1993), Learning from trading, Review of Financial Studies 6, 507-526
    unspecified
  • D. Keim and A. Madhavan (1995), Anatomy of the trading process: Empirical evidence on the behavior of institutional traders, Journal of Financial Economics 37, 371-398
    unspecified
  • C. Lee and M. Ready (1991), Inferring trade direction from intraday data, Journal of Finance 46, 733-746
    unspecified
  • C. Lee, M. Ready and P. Seguin (1994), Volume, volatility, and NYSE trading halts, Journal of Finance 49, 183-214
    unspecified
  • M. Lewis (2014), Flash boys, Norton
    unspecified
  • A. Lo and C. MacKinlay (1990), When are contrarian profits due to stock market overreaction?, Review of Financial Studies 3, 175-208
    unspecified
  • R. Lyons (1995), Tests of microstructural hypotheses in the foreign exchange market, Journal of Financial Economics 39, 321-351
    unspecified
  • S. Nagel (2012), Evaporating liquidity, Review of Financial Studies 25, 2005-2039
    unspecified
  • M. O’Hara (1995), Market microstructure theory, Blackwell
    unspecified
  • P. Pasquariello and C. Vega (2007), Informed and strategic order flow in the bond markets, Review of Financial Studies 20, 1975-2019
    unspecified
  • L. Pástor and R. Stambaugh (2003), Liquidity risk and expected stock returns; Journal of Political Economy 111, 642-85
    unspecified
  • D. Rime (2003), New electronic trading systems in foreign exchange markets in the New Economy Handbook, 469-504
    unspecified
  • R. Roll (1988), R2, The Journal of Finance 43, 541-566
    unspecified
  • P. Schultz (2001), Corporate bond trading costs: A peek behind the curtain, Journal of Finance 56, 677-698
    unspecified
  • H. Stoll and R. Whaley (1990), Stock market structure and volatility, Review of Financial Studies 3, 37-71
    unspecified
  • R. Wermers (1999), Mutual fund herding and the impact on stock prices, Journal of Finance 54, 581-622
    unspecified
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