This article has benefited from the comments and suggestions of two anonymous reviewers. ## 1 Of course, speculation based on fundamentals is likely to be stabilizing rather than destabilizing. Destabilizing speculation may be the result of noise trading (i.e., buying and selling not on the basis
Futures option expirations and volatility in the stock index futures market
โ Scribed by G. D. Hancock
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 748 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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