When stock futures dominate price discovery

Nidhi Aggarwal, Susan Thomas · 2019 · Journal of Futures Markets
IntermediateHFTIntradayEmpiricalFree to read
On NSE's highly liquid single-stock futures, futures carry about 55% of the information share around news, rising to 61% on bad news when short-sale limits push informed traders to futures. The leverage-versus-liquidity trade-off decides which market leads.

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Level
Intermediate: Comfortable with statistics, regressions and basic probability models
Horizon
HFT, Intraday
Data needed
Trades, L1 quotes Set what data you have
Themes
Microstructure
Assets
Equities, Futures
Market
India

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