Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22451 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 339
Publisher: 
Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
This study examines profits and speculation in the USD/EUR trading of a bank in Germany over a four-month period. Dealing activity at the bank generates profits but speculation does not seem to contribute to this. We find that speculative positions fail to become profitable within a 30-minutes' horizon. Also, the suggestion that exchange rate volatility would foster speculative profits cannot be confirmed. To explain daily revenues, neither the bank's speculative trading volume nor its inventory position, but only customer trading emerges as a significant determinant. Furthermore, a spread analysis reveals that there is hardly any room for revenues from speculation.
Subjects: 
foreign exchange markets
speculation
profits
market microstructure
flow analysis
JEL: 
F31
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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