Trader see, trader do: How do (small) FX traders react to large counterparties' trades?

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of International Money and Finance
Year: 2010
Volume: 29
Issue: 7
Pages: 1283-1302

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We show that information about the counterparty of a trade affects the future trading decisions of individual traders. The effect is such that traders tend to reverse their order flow in line with the better-informed counterparties. Informed traders primarily incorporate their own private as well as publicly available information into prices, whereas uninformed traders mainly magnify the effect of the informed. This pattern of interaction among traders extends to different order types: traders treat their own and others' market orders as more informative than limit orders.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jimfin:v:29:y:2010:i:7:p:1283-1302
Journal Field
International
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-26