Do internet stock message boards influence trading? Evidence from heavily discussed stocks with no fundamental news

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1209-1237

  Sabherwal, Sanjiv ^a   Sarkar, Salil K ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet stock message board; Investor sentiment; Na ve bayesian; Noise trader; Online trading; Text classifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455212034     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2011.02258.x     Document Type: Article

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