Profits and speculation in intra-day foreign exchange trading

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 223-245

  Mende, Alexander ^a   Menkhoff, Lukas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow analysis; Foreign exchange markets; Market microstructure; Profits; Speculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746255588     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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