Delays in login can cause significant loss of revenue opportunities in financial trading applications. Such was the case for a foreign exchange deal management system, wherein the login step itself was very complex. The complexity arose from the need for synchronizing the front-end client workstation with the central back-end database as part of user login, and was further complicated by a larg...

This paper focuses on modeling foreign exchange return behavior that would result in more accurate currency options pricing. These alternative approaches namely, implied volatility model (IVM), realized volatility model (RVM) and GARCH (1,1) volatility model (GVM) are used in this study. The results, in general suggest that RVM outperforms both IVM and GVM in pricing currency options. In-sample...

This paper examines the sources of private information in the interbank foreign-exchange market using a transactions database that includes trading-party identities. We show that sustained post-trade returns rise with bank size, implying that larger banks have an information advantage. The larger banks exploit this information advantage in placing limit orders as well as market orders. We also ...

In this paper we investigate the profitability of evolved technical trading rules when controlling for data-mining bias. For the first time in the evolutionary computation literature, a comprehensive test for a rule’s statistical significance using Hansen’s Superior Predictive Ability is explicitly taken into account in the fitness function, and multi-objective evolutionary optimisation is empl...

A numerical model for the foreign exchange (FX) market is developed and its implementation on a distributed memory parallel computer is discussed. The model considers a description of the market at the level of the real agents, such as traders and market makers. These actors are represented by interacting computerized agents. Parallelism allows the study of systems with many actors and realisti...

One of the most important policies concerning the adjustment of foreign trade is to allocate foreign currency by establishing an exchange control system. The mechanism of this would be so that the Central Bank operates or supervises all transactions concerning foreign exchange. However, the controlling system, like all other international systems of payment, operates with some adjustments and i...

We examine the impact of stock exchange trading rules and surveillance on the frequency and severity of suspected insider trading cases in 22 stock exchanges around the world over the period January 2003 through June 2011. Using new indices for market manipulation, insider trading, and broker-agency conflict based on the specific provisions of the trading rules of each stock exchange, along wit...