An Intraday Analysis of the Probability of Trading on the ASX at the Asking Price
Open Access
- 1 December 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian Journal of Management
- Vol. 20 (2) , 115-154
- https://doi.org/10.1177/031289629502000202
Abstract
We explain the probability of a trade at the asking price across time. The database contains intraday bid‐ask quotes and transaction prices on the Australian Stock Exchange. We find systematic patterns in the probability of a trade at the asking price, corresponding to previously documented return anomalies, including the day‐of‐week, end‐of‐day and turn‐of‐year anomalies. The probability is higher when a trade is of lower dollar volume, lower buy‐order imbalance, lower bid‐ask spread, when it is a trade of a smaller firm, a trade of a stock with higher trading frequency, higher price level, and the security is approved for short selling.Keywords
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