An investigation of customer order flow in the foreign exchange market

Cerrato, Mario, Sarantis, Nicholas and Saunders, Alex (2009) An investigation of customer order flow in the foreign exchange market. Centre for International Capital Markets discussion papers, 2009 (11). pp. 1-32. ISSN 1749-3412

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This paper examines the effect that heterogeneous customer orders flows have on exchange rates by using a new propreitary dataset of weekly net order flow segmented by customer type across nine of the most liquid currency pairs. We make three contributions. First, we investigate the extent to which order flow can help to explain exchange rate movements over and above the influence of macroeconomic variables. Second, we look at the usefulness of order flow in forecasting exchange rate movements at longer horizons than those generally considered in the microstructure literature. Finally we address the question of whether the out-of-sample exchange rate forecasts generated by order flows can be employed profitably in the foreign exchange markets.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Centre for International Capital Markets discussion papers; CICM discussion papers; customer order flow; exchange rates; microstructure; forecasting
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Department:	Guildhall School of Business and Law
Depositing User:	Mary Burslem
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2015 15:01
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2015 11:30
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/439

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