Today, in many countries, there are many banks engaging in financial derivatives trading to manage risks. This paper selects data on financial derivatives trading from US banks and FRED to analyze the effect of financial derivatives trading on US banks and its economy. The results show that the impact of total financial derivatives trading revenue on bank residual (assets less liabilities) is b...

The collaboration of agents can undertake complicated tasks that cannot be handled well by a single agent. This is even true for excecuting multiple goals at the same time. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of trading agent collaboration in integrating multiple trading strategies. Trading agents are used for developing quality trading strategies to support smart actions in the market. Evolu...

Currency trading is a vast and highly profitable business. This review examines the profitability of two popular currency trading strategies in light of currency-market microstructure research. The carry-trade strategy involves borrowing a low-interest currency and investing the proceeds in a high-interest currency. Technical trading strategies are determined exclusively on the basis of past as...

Transaction costs can make it unprofitable to rebalance all the way to the ideal portfolio. A single-period analysis using mean-variance theory provides many interesting insights. With fixed or variable costs, there is a non-trading region within which trading does not pay. With only variable costs, any trading is to the boundary of the non-trading region, while fixed costs induce trading to th...

We study the optimal trading strategy of mutual funds that face both position limits and differential illiquidity. We provide explicit characterization of the optimal trading strategy and conduct an extensive analytical and numerical analysis of the optimal trading strategy. We show that the optimal trading boundaries are increasing in both the lower and the upper position limits. We find that ...