The impact of information flow and trading activity on gold and oil futures volatility

Adam Clements and Neda Todorova ()
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No 102, NCER Working Paper Series from National Centre for Econometric Research

Abstract: There is a long history of research into the impact of trading activity and information on financial market volatility. Based on 10 years of unique data on news items relating to gold and crude oil broadcast over the Reuters network, this study has two objectives. It investigates the impact of shocks in trading activity and traders positions which are unrelated to information flows on realized volatility. Additionally, the extent to which the volume of the information flow as well as the sentiment inherent in the news affects volatility is also examined. Both the sentiment and rate of news flow are found to influence volatility, with unexpected positive shocks to the rate of news arrival, and negative shocks to the sentiment of news flow exhibiting the largest impacts. While volatility is also related to measures of trading activity, their influence decreases after news is accounted for indicating that a non-negligible component of trading is in response to public news flow. After controlling for the level of trading activity and news flow, the net positions of the various types of traders play no role, implying that no single group of traders lead to these markets being more volatile.

Keywords: Information flow; Volatility; Oil futures; Gold futures; Trading activity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 G10 G13 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2014-06-17
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