Day Trader Behavior and Performance: Evidence from Taiwan Futures Market

作者:Cheng, Teng Yuan; Lin, Chao Hsien*; Li, Hungchih; Lai, Syouching; Watkins, Kerry A
来源:Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2016, 52(11): 2495-2511.
DOI:10.1080/1540496X.2016.1172205

摘要

By using a unique data from the Taiwan futures market to identify each trader's trading records and focusing on the high-frequency day traders who trade at least 90 days over the sample year, this study closely examines their behaviors and performance. Day traders' performances are risk-adjusted and analyzed to identify behavioral biases and the resulting impact on performance. There is no evidence found that trading too much is detrimental to investment performance. The high-frequency day traders are more aware of the danger of behavioral biases and are as a result less prone to the disposition effect. Contrary to expectations, day traders in my study are shown to be non-loss averse. Most of our sample except for the highest performance quintile follow a momentum strategy.

  • 出版日期2016
  • 单位南京审计大学