Investor Trading Behavior and Sentiment in Futures Markets

This study investigates the effects of investor trading behavior and investor sentiment on futures market return. We find that the spot investor trading behavior, futures investor trading behavior, spot market sentiment, and futures market sentiment all have positive effects on daily futures returns in Chinese financial market. More importantly, we show that the effect of (spot) futures investor trading behavior has better explanatory power than (spot) futures market sentiment on futures returns. Further supporting our results, high investor trading behavior and high investor sentiment strengthen the positive relation between sentiment-returns and behavior-returns.     

How is Futures Trading Affected by the Move to a Computerized Trading System? Lessons from the LIFFE FTSE 100 Contract

Abstract:  We consider the impact of the May 1999 move to screen trading of the LIFFE FTSE 100 index futures contract. This resulted in a narrowing of the effective spread. Spread determinants are broadly similar in the two regimes. The narrowing of the spread appears due to increased competition among traders and a decline in tick-level volatility rather than to the way these or other variables affect the spread. Market depth appears largely unaffected. Under screen trading, realized spreads widen as more limit orders are taken up rather than in relation to order size per se .     

证券期货市场人工智能交易的刑法规制

证券期货市场人工智能交易具有强大的预测分析能力、投资策略制定能力以及敏锐的市场反应能力。与之相适应,刑法对证券期货犯罪的规制重点也应当从交易的行为方式向交易技术转移。鉴于利用人工智能交易可以实施滥用技术优势型市场操纵犯罪行为,刑法有必要对人工智能交易予以规制,并且这种规制利大于弊。规制应当明确区分人工智能交易的正当使用和滥用,并进一步完善操纵证券、期货市场罪的规定。     

股指期货交易场所选择分析

股指期货是在证券交易所上市还是在期货交易所上市,国际上没有统一的惯例.本文根据我国目前证券市场发展状况,从股指期货全球的发展趋势、风险控制、运行成本、长远发展等几方面,分析我国推出股指期货交易地点的选择问题,认为我国证券交易所推出股指期货要优于期货交易所推出股指期货.     

股指期货推出对中国上市银行市值的影响分析

本文对股指期货推出后中国上市银行市值将可能发生的变化进行了分析.在考察国外主要股票市场推出股指期货前后市场走势的变化,以及对主要成分股股价的影响的基础上,对我国推出股指期货后可能对股票市场以及上市银行市值产生的影响进行预测,并对银行股的可操纵性进行分析.推出股指期货前后短期内,由于机构抢筹等原因,股票现货市场一般会出现较大波动,但长期中由于无风险套利行为的存在,市场走势仍由基本面决定.根据国际经验,中国上市银行市值在短期内会受到一定影响,但长期来看被市场作为操纵工具的可能性不大.     

Liquidity Provision of Limit Order Trading in the Futures Market Under Bull and Bear Markets

Abstract:  This study investigates how limit orders affect liquidity in a purely order-driven futures market. Additionally, the possible asymmetric relationship between market depth and transitory volatility in bull and bear markets and the effect of institutional trading on liquidity provision behavior are examined as well. The empirical results demonstrate that subsequent market depth increases as transient volatility increases in bull markets. Market depth exhibits significantly positive relationship to subsequent transient volatility in bull markets. Additionally, although trading volume positively influences transient volatility in bull markets, no such relationship exists in bear markets. Liquidity provision decreases when institutional trading activity intensifies during bear markets. Thus, liquidity provision for limit orders differs between bull and bear markets.     

期货市场交易结构、价格形成机制及其效率研究

做市商机制和连续竞价机制是现代期货市场主流的两类交易机制，连续竞价机制则成本较低，价格信号反应灵敏；做市商机制透明、公正，市场连续性较好，代表着期货市场交易机制的未来发展方向。通过对期货市场微观交易结构及价格形成机制的模型研究，结合我国的实际情况，比较考察了几种典型的期货交易机制在不同交易结构下的价格形成效率，对我国期货市场转型完善时期具有现实意义。     

我国股指期货与股票交易的关联性分析

股指期货上市交易后对股票现货市场波动性的影响取决于届时股票现货市场的估值水平,其交易过程和结果也将改变市场投资主体结构及参与程度,形成交易主体多元化的格局。同时,我国股票现货市场对股指期货的交易也存在着反约束.     

国际期货市场机构投资者的发展及借鉴

期货市场上的机构投资者主要有期货投资基金和对冲基金，证券公司或投资银行、养老基金、共同基金以及商业银行等机构也是重要参与者。本文介绍了参与国际期货市场的机构投资者的投资特点、在不同市场投资所占的比重和发挥的作用，分析了期货市场机构投资者的类型、发展及与现货市场机构投资者及期货公司之间的关系，并为中国期货市场机构投资者的发展提出了相关建议。     

论我国股指期货的风险与对策

股票指数期货是20世纪80年代发展起来的金融创新产品。在我国期货市场推出该品种,对建设有中国特色的资本市场有其特殊意义。因此,有必要对我国股指期货的运作风险进行分析和把握,以利于我国股指期货的健康发展。     

Efficiency in the Pricing of the FTSE 100 Futures Contract

This paper studies the pricing efficiency in the FTSE 100 futures contract by linking the predictable movements in futures returns to the time-varying risk and risk premia associated with prespecified factors. The results indicate that the predictability of the FTSE 100 futures returns is consistent with a conditional multifactor model with time-varying moments. The dynamics of the factor risk premia, combined with the variation in the betas, capture most of the predictable variance of returns, leaving little variation to be explained in terms of market inefficiency. Hence the predictive power of the instruments does not justify a rejection of market efficiency.     

股指期货与股票现货市场竞争关系研究——来自中国的经验证据

本文利用模拟生态学中种群间动态关系的Lotka-Volterra模型,对沪深300股指期货同股票现货市场在交易规模方面的竞争关系进行实证分析。研究结果表明,沪深300股指期货推出初期,股指期货市场与股票现货市场在交易规模方面存在竞争性的交易转移效应;随着股指期货市场相关规则的不断健全和完善,股指期货市场与股票现货市场在交易规模方面由竞争关系转变为共存关系,出现交易引资效应。同时,研究还发现,股指期货市场与股票现货市场之间关系由竞争性转变为共存性的重要原因是股指期货市场监管力度的加大,股指期货市场投资者结构的优化,以及股指期货市场期现套利交易的盛行。     

股指期货与现货市场的关系研究

本文从市场结构、交易执行效率和市场信息传播三个方面,由浅入深地展开了期现货市场关系的梳理和分析。股指期货市场的出现,一是使得原本现货市场单轨运行的市场结构变为了期现货市场双轨运行的新结构,增加了市场稳定性;二是依托期货交易方式的独特机制,大大提高了交易执行效率;三是期货价格也因此包含了更多内容,促进了市场信息的传播与扩散。同时,股指期货的独特设计使得其非常适合在危机条件下充分发挥功能,是一个重要的风险管理工具,已经成为现代资本市场的重要组成部分和基础性的内在稳定机制。     

我国证券交易所推出股指期货的法律基础

股指期货的推出需要一定的条件,其中法律环境是重要条件之一.本文结合我国的具体法律制度,借鉴国外的立法经验,对当前我国证券交易所推出股指期货进行了法律可行性分析,并提出相关的法律建议与对策.     

Information Flows Between the U.S. and China Commodity Futures Trading

Using a bivariate GARCH model, we examine patterns of information flows for three commodity futures traded in both the developed U.S. market and the emerging China market (copper, soybeans and wheat). For copper and soybeans, the two commodities that are subject to less government regulation and fewer import restrictions in China, we find that the U.S. futures market plays a dominant role in transmitting information to the Chinese market, a result that confirms the importance of the U.S. role as a leader in the global financial market. For the heavily regulated and subsidized wheat commodity, our empirical results indicate that the U.S.-China futures markets are highly segmented in pricing, although information transmission via volatility spillover across markets is present.     

我国农产品期货市场发展现状、问题及对策

近年来,我国农产品期货市场日益规范,交易规模扩大,交易品种增加,但仍然存在交易品种少、体系不完善、法律法规不健全、投资主体结构不合理、合作组织及中介机构发展落后等问题。为推动我国农产品期货市场健康发展,必须不断开发新上市品种,进一步优化市场结构;加强农产品期货市场秩序整顿,加快立法,完善监管;加强对农户的教育和培训,塑造成熟的投资主体;通过建立农户自组型期货合作社、企农联合型期货合作社和信农互动型期货合作社等期货合作模式,帮助农户利用农产品期货市场增加收益。     

证券、期货犯罪防范体系构建探析——以股指期货交易为切入点

股指期货是连接证券市场和期货市场的纽带,为证券市场提供了有效的避险工具。通过对股指期货犯罪行为的分析,笔者认为,操纵股指期货的行为必须纳入刑法规制范畴,同时还应当警惕并防范股指期货挂牌交易后因设计缺陷所产生的"新型老鼠仓"行为。并且单独罪名无法有效防止犯罪行为发生,应当建立综合性证券、期货犯罪防范体系。     

Margins and Price Limits in Taiwan's Stock Index Futures Market

This study extends the framework of Brennan (1986) to find the cost-minimizing combination of spot limits, futures limits, and margins for stock and index futures in the Taiwan market. Our empirical results show that the cost-minimization combination of margins, spot price limits, and futures price limits is 7 percent, 6 percent, and 6 percent, respectively, when the index level is less than 7,000. When the index level ranges from 7,000 to 9,000, the efficient futures contract calls for a combination of 6.5 percent, 5 percent, and 6 percent. The optimal margin, reneging probability, and corresponding contract cost are less than those without price limits. Price limits may partially substitute for margin requirements in ensuring contract performance, with a default risk lower than the 0.3 percent rate that is accepted by the Taiwan Futures Exchange. On the other hand, though imposing equal price limits of 7 percent on both the spot and futures markets does not coincide with the efficient contract design, it does have a lower contract cost and margin requirement (7.75 percent) than that without imposing price limits (8.25 percent).     

危机后期货市场的表现及政策建议

本轮金融危机中,金融衍生品成为众矢之的。对场外衍生品和场内衍生品不加区分,造成了人们对场内衍生品的误解。数据分析表明,以期货为代表的场内衍生品市场在此次金融危机中表现稳定,继续发挥功能作用。危机之后,大力稳步发展以期货为代表的场内衍生品,将有助于提高我国的国际影响力和在国际大宗商品定价中的话语权。     

Forecasting Stock Index Futures Price Volatility: Linear vs. Nonlinear Models

The study examines the relative ability of various models to forecast daily stock index futures volatility. The forecasting models that are employed range from naïve models to the relatively complex ARCH-class models. It is found that among linear models of stock index futures volatility, the autoregressive model ranks first using the RMSE and MAPE criteria. We also examine three nonlinear models. These models are GARCH-M, EGARCH, and ESTAR. We find that nonlinear GARCH models dominate linear models utilizing the RMSE and the MAPE error statistics and EGARCH appears to be the best model for forecasting stock index futures price volatility.