Day 10 of 12: Price Movement – Closing Auctions
Mid point price movement of Anglo American plc referencing 20th September 2019 Closing Auction
Following previous observations of the growing significance of the closing auction we felt curious as to whether a benchmark price should be the best driver of liquidity. As we saw yesterday, investors were quick to embrace the opening auction and trade more throughout the day when trader/fund manager conviction is higher such as last Friday 13th. So what happens on days when closing volumes are greater, such as index rebalance and derivative expiry days?
As you may have seen, we have examined intraday price movement in the past to compare market mechanisms. Today we are introducing a view of movement around the closing price.
The chart shows the UK stock Anglo American on 20th September (a derivative expiry day). The line shows the change (in Basis Points) of the mid point price of the stock relative to the close from 15 minutes before to the first 15 minutes of trading the following day. The thickness of the line represents the value traded.
What we see is a 1 percent move into the close which reverts 40 basis points on the opening print the next day and fully after 15 minutes trading. For £640mn turnover at the close that’s quite a big win (or loss) for choosing to trade at the close. Worth noting that the underlying price momentum appears to be in the other direction.
Anyway, we only chose that stock as the symbol is first in the alphabet. If you want to look at the other 99 UK blue chips? Or the German or French Stocks affected? Or another key date? Maybe an index rebalance?
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On our 12 Days of Trading
As the year draws to a close we have been asked by clients to repeat our festive exercise on the 12 days leading up to the holidays. As a result, you will find a post to a different 2019 big-xyt observation each day. We look and highlight trends since the introduction of MiFID II with a focus on this year’s changes or events.
We hope you enjoy them.
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