Short sales and trade classification algorithms

This paper demonstrates that short sales are often misclassified as buyer-initiated by the Lee–Ready and other commonly used trade classification algorithms. This result is due in part to regulations which require that short sales be executed on an uptick or zero-uptick. In addition, while the liter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Asquith, Paul, Oman, Rebecca, Safaya, Christopher
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99176
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7883-246X