کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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960859 | 1478947 | 2014 | 24 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Day trading is an equilibrium feature of trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
• We document cross-sectional differences in returns earned by speculative traders.
• Few day traders are able to earn positive abnormal returns net of fees.
• The spread in returns between top-ranked and bottom-ranked speculators is large.
• Variation in investor skill is an important feature of financial markets.
We document economically large cross-sectional differences in the before- and after-fee returns earned by speculative traders by analyzing day traders in Taiwan from 1992 to 2006. We sort day traders based on their returns in year y and analyze their performance in year y+1; the 500 top-ranked day traders go on to earn daily before-fee (after-fee) returns of 61.3 (37.9) bps per day; bottom-ranked day traders go on to earn daily before-fee (after-fee) returns of −11.5 (−28.9) bps per day. Less than 1% of the day trader population is able to predictably and reliably earn positive abnormal returns net of fees.
Journal: Journal of Financial Markets - Volume 18, March 2014, Pages 1–24