Indonesian Capital Market Review (Jul 2013)

Trading Mechanisms, Return’s Volatility, and Efficiency in the Casablance Stock Exchange

  • El Mehdi Ferrouhi,
  • Elhadj Ezzahid

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21002/icmr.v5i2.1859
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2

Abstract

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This paper studies the impact of the stock market continuity on the returns volatility and on the market efficiency in the Casablanca Stock Exchange. For the most active stocks, the trading mechanism used is the continuous market which is preceded by a call market pre opening session. Results obtained concerning return volatility and efficiency under the two trading mechanisms show that the continuous market returns are more volatile than the call market returns and 50% of stocks studied show independence between variations.   Keywords: Trading mechanism, microstructure, call market, continuous market, efficiency, volatility