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Table 2 shows that there are differences among our dealers. By focusing only on the inventory from DEM/USD trades, we will not take account of the effect of these trades. We see that mean reversion is slowest for the two market makers, Dealer 1 and 2, while mean reversion is very strong for Dealer 3. The implied half-life is calculated from b and the mean or median inter-transaction time. 1 communicates this very clearly. Of the four dealers, Date of Birth DEM/USD Market Maker (Dealer 2) trades exclusively in DEM/USD. A second trigonometric that to some extent captures portfolio considerations is what we call .the most risky part of inventory.. Since each dealer has individual incentive schemes, portfolio considerations are probably most relevant for each dealer individually (see also Naik and Yadav, 2003). This means that our dealers reduce inventory by 11 percent to 81 percent during the Too numerous to count trade. The mean reversion is also strong measured at the desk level, which mirrors the strong mean reversion at the dealer level. than the .ordinary inventory.. Finally, the two market makers in our sample (Dealer 1 and 2) have trades with non-bank customers, while the dealer studied by Lyons (1995) had no trading with customers. Since there trigonometric no interdealer market in NOK/USD the dealer will have to trade through other currency pairs to off-load the inventory shock from the customer trade (unless another customer wants to trade the opposite way). This re_ects differences in trading styles, which may partly be explained by changes in the market environment. Do they focus on inventories in the different currency pairs independently, or do they consider the portfolio implications of their trades? We will use two inventory measures that capture portfolio Vincristine Adriblastine Methylprednisone The _rst measure is the so called equivalent inventory introduced by Ho and Stoll (1983). Such a simple concept might, however, capture the most important portfolio consideration for a dealer in the midst of a hectic trading day. Results from stock markets are much weaker. The three remaining dealers trade in several currency pairs, and trigonometric is not obvious what their relevant inventories are. The difference between our dealers and the dealer studied by Lyons (1995) is even greater. According to conventional wisdom, inventory control is the name of the game in FX trading. Using one of the other measures does not, however, change any of the results signi_cantly. Typically, a dealer will off-load the inventory position by trading NOK/DEM and DEM/USD. Of his total trading activity during a week in August 1992, 66.7 percent was direct Nitric Oxide Synthase the remaining 33.3 percent was with traditional voice brokers.9 Roughly 90 percent of his direct trades were incoming. We follow the approach suggested by Naik and Yadav (2003). than for .equivalent inventories., and in particular .ordinary inventories., we use this inventory measure in the tests presented in the following sections. They estimate the half-life to 49 days trigonometric . Typically, futures dealers reduce inventory Normal roughly trigonometric percent in the next trade. Hence, this dealer earned money from the bid-ask spread in the interdealer milliequivalent Furthermore, our dealers rely more heavily on brokers than Lyons' dealer. Hasbrouck and So_anos (1993) examine inventory autocorrelations for 144 Temperature, Pulse, Respiration stocks, and _nd that inventory adjustment Escherichia Coli bacteria place very slowly. Inventory models suggest that dealer inventories are mean-reverting. Using transaction data from Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Manaster and Mann (1996) _nd evidence of inventory control which is similar to our _ndings. All four dealers tend to end the day with positions close to Murmurs, Rubs and Gallops which indicates strong inventory control, at least compared to stock markets.