{"title":"Can night trading reduce price volatility? Evidence from China's corn and corn starch futures markets","authors":"Weiyi Xia, Tao Xiong, Miao Li","doi":"10.1002/fut.22483","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22483","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since 2013, China's futures exchanges have implemented night trading for agricultural futures to reduce the overnight risk and price jump of futures products by extending trading hours. This study uses difference-in-differences (DID) to examine the impacts of night trading on daytime price volatility in corn and corn starch futures markets. On the basis of tick-by-tick data for these futures, we find that night trading has significantly reduced daytime volatility and contributed to price volatility stability in the corresponding futures market. Moreover, we make DID estimations for separate daytime sessions and find that the reduction of the daytime volatility takes place mainly during the first trading session. Robustness and placebo tests further support our main conclusions. Our results provide valuable guidance for futures exchanges and regulators seeking to formulate night trading policies for futures and options.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 4","pages":"585-604"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139529794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Price discovery and long-memory property: Simulation and empirical evidence from the bitcoin market","authors":"Ke Xu, Yu-Lun Chen, Bo Liu, Jian Chen","doi":"10.1002/fut.22484","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22484","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Price discovery studies of a single asset traded in multiple markets have traditionally focused on assessing the relative price discovery contribution of each market. However, in this paper, we demonstrate that the overall price discovery across all markets can undergo changes even when the relative price discovery of each market remains constant. We propose that this overall change in price discovery can be effectively captured by the fractional parameter in the fractionally cointegrated vector autoregressive (FCVAR) model. In contrast, the widely used cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model fails to account for this dynamic in overall price discovery. Through a combination of simulation exercises and empirical applications, we show that the FCVAR approach outperforms the CVAR model not only in evaluating the relative price discovery contributions but also, more importantly, in providing a comprehensive measurement of overall price discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 4","pages":"605-618"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139497470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journal of Futures Markets: Volume 44, Number 2, February 2024","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/fut.22428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.22428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 2","pages":"149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fut.22428","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139400167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhikai Zhang, Yaojie Zhang, Yudong Wang, Qunwei Wang
{"title":"The predictability of carbon futures volatility: New evidence from the spillovers of fossil energy futures returns","authors":"Zhikai Zhang, Yaojie Zhang, Yudong Wang, Qunwei Wang","doi":"10.1002/fut.22482","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22482","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we find new evidence for the carbon futures volatility prediction by using the spillovers of fossil energy futures returns as a powerful predictor. The in-sample results show that the spillovers have a significantly positive effect on carbon futures volatility. From the out-of-sample analysis with various loss functions, we find that fossil energy return spillovers significantly outperform the benchmark and show better forecasting performance than the competing models using dimension reduction, variable selection, and combination approaches. The predictive ability of the spillovers also holds in long-term forecasting and does not derive from other carbon-related variables. It can bring substantial economic gains in the portfolio exercise within carbon futures. Finally, we provide economic explanations on the predictive ability of the fossil energy return spillover by the channels of the carbon emission uncertainty and the investor sentiment on the warming climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 4","pages":"557-584"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139421634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Left-digit biases: Individual and institutional investors","authors":"Jinyoung Yu, Young-Chul Kim, Doojin Ryu","doi":"10.1002/fut.22479","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22479","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the left-digit bias of individual and institutional investors using the microstructural data set from a highly liquid index futures market. Both investor groups exhibit excess buying after the ask falls with a tens-digit decrement, whereas excess selling (buying) is observed only for institutions (individuals) after the bid rises with a tens-digit increment. Such excess buying is generally pronounced when price uncertainty is high. Institutional excess selling is evident when uncertainty is low and immediately after the market opens. While both investor groups focus on cognitive reference points, our findings imply that investors heterogeneously respond to the bias and that individuals experience investment losses as they trade on the bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 3","pages":"518-532"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139054067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hedging performance analysis of energy markets: Evidence from copula quantile regression","authors":"Xianling Ren, Xinping Yu","doi":"10.1002/fut.22476","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22476","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates hedging performance with respect to different market structures for energy-related commodities, including West Texas Intermediate crude oil, Brent crude oil, Chinese crude oil, and Heating oil. Copula quantile regression functions and the generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroscedasticity model are combined to analyze the nonlinear impact of dependence and the heterogeneous impact of market structure changes on hedging performance. Results show that hedging performance presents nonlinearity and market structure changes have surprisingly strong heterogeneous effects on the quantile hedge ratio, where bearish and bullish have lower hedge ratios than normal markets, which is captured better by Clayton copula quantile regression. Additionally, the trend of hedging effectiveness over different market structures also shows an inverted U shape. After changing data frequency or the types of futures contracts, the conclusions remain the same. Our empirical findings imply that hedgers are supposed to adjust the hedging number of futures according to market structure changes to hedge price risk effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 3","pages":"432-450"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139156073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony N. Rezitis, Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Theodoros Daglis
{"title":"Assessing the asymmetric volatility linkages of energy and agricultural commodity futures during low and high volatility regimes","authors":"Anthony N. Rezitis, Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Theodoros Daglis","doi":"10.1002/fut.22477","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22477","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated the volatility linkages between energy and agricultural futures, including possible causes for these comovements, such as external macroeconomic and financial shocks during low and high volatility regimes. A combination of Markov-switching regressions and quadrivariate VAR–DCC–GARCH and VAR–BEKK–GARCH modeling revealed that external shocks have an asymmetric effect on the relationship of these assets with higher cross-correlations reported during high volatility regimes. This comovement effect outweighs the substitution effect between energy and agricultural products. Furthermore, the quadrivariate VAR–BEKK–GARCH model provides strong evidence of a bidirectional price volatility spillover between the agricultural and energy markets during periods of high volatility. Overall, the results suggest that energy futures can be effectively used for hedging in a portfolio comprising agricultural futures (and vice versa), while a combination of macroeconomic and financial index futures can serve as an effective hedging tool in investment portfolios comprising both energy and agricultural commodities.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 3","pages":"451-483"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fut.22477","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Price monotonicity violations during stock market crashes: Evidence from the SSE 50 ETF options market","authors":"Xingguo Luo, Doojin Ryu, Libin Tao, Chuxin Ye","doi":"10.1002/fut.22480","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22480","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study empirically tests whether price violations, as defined by Bakshi, Cao, and Chen (2000), show different patterns in response to market shocks. Specifically, we analyze the Chinese options market during a period covering a stock market crash and a series of trading restrictions in the Chinese derivatives markets. Our results confirm the significant changes of the defined violations in the face of unexpected shocks, and more importantly, we interpret such variations from the perspective of information spillovers. Our findings suggest that the stock market crash prompts informed traders in the Chinese options market to frequently adjust their positions on put options, exacerbating the misunderstandings and overreactions to new information. Further, the regulatory shock in the derivatives markets diminishes the efficiency of information incorporation for both options and spot markets but does not affect the dominance of the Chinese options market in price discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 3","pages":"533-554"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139158263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sumit Saurav, Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla, Jayanth R. Varma
{"title":"Role of derivatives market in attenuating underreaction to left-tail risk","authors":"Sumit Saurav, Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla, Jayanth R. Varma","doi":"10.1002/fut.22478","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fut.22478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The anomalous negative relationship between left-tail risk measures and future returns has recently attracted the attention of finance researchers. We examine the role of the derivatives market in attenuating left-tail risk anomaly in India, where derivatives trade only for a subset of stocks. We find that the negative association between left-tail risk measure and future return is absent only in stocks having derivatives, indicating that derivatives trading hastens the diffusion of negative information into the stock prices. We find evidence that the information generation role of derivatives markets plays a primary role compared to investor inattention and limits to arbitrage.</p>","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 3","pages":"484-517"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139062114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journal of Futures Markets: Volume 44, Number 1, January 2024","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/fut.22427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.22427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"44 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fut.22427","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138739960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}