Inter-market spread trading: Evidence from UK index futures markets

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 783-790

  Butterworth, Darren ^a   Holmes, Phil ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS; PROFITABILITY; TRANSACTION COST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 30744439929     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100110044236     Document Type: Article

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