Grounded in ethnographic observations, this article offers a commentary on the visible and invisible dynamics of mobility between China West Central Africa. It follows transnational trajectories African trader women takes stock some weight that these shoulder during trips where goods money are set motion. The materiality transported consumer items shapes traders’ experiences immobility. Trader ...

This paper documents order submission strategies during the Toronto Stock Exchange’s pre-opening session. I find that the registered trader (RT) actively participates in the market opening despite not being able to set the opening price directly and not having an apparent informational advantage. I find that RT opening trades are profitable, are able to moderate overnight price changes, and may...

Models of stock price prediction have traditionally used technical indicators alone to generate trading signals. In this paper, we build trading strategies by applying machine-learning techniques to both technical analysis indicators and market sentiment data. The resulting prediction models can be employed as an artificial trader used to trade on any given stock exchange. The performance of th...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a design method environment-oriented house optimize natural energy use such as ventilation and sun radiation throughout year, by switching the combinations several established passive techniques ‘Mode’. In paper, according annual record modes dweller with measurement temperature energy, cost equipped architectural elements, contribution workload dweller...

We exploit rich information on the geographic, product and trader characteristics of Chinese exports between 1997-2003 to examine how evolution in the city-industry presence of multinational firms influenced the quality, frequency and survival of new export transactions by private Chinese firms. Our analysis finds that increased contact with own-industry multinational firms was associated with ...

We explore various extensions of Challet and Zhang’s Minority Game in an attempt to gain insight into the dynamics underlying financial markets. First we consider a heterogeneous population where individual traders employ differing ‘time horizons’ when making predictions based on historical data. The resulting average winnings per trader is a highly non-linear function of the population’s compo...

A trader is a software component to matchmake between clients and servers on the basis of the type and attributes of the services requested and o ered. A prototype trader, Go-Between, has been developed within CEDIS to obtain practical experience with the concepts and realities of traders in order to: better in uence the development of the ISO/CCITT Trader standard expedite the development of a...

We study general equilibrium with private and incomplete state verification. Trade is agreed ex ante, that is, before private information is received. It is useful to define a list of bundles as a derivative good that gives an agent the right to receive one of the bundles in the list. Enforceable trade agreements can be described by Pimeasurable plans of lists of bundles, instead of Pi-measurab...