Overconfident individual day traders: Evidence from the Taiwan futures market

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3548-3561

  Kuo, Wei Yu ^a   Lin, Tse Chun ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Day traders; Index futures; Individual investors; Learning; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879451668     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.04.036     Document Type: Article

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