Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 143 2022
Impact of Price Path on Disposition Bias
Abstract
Recent experimental studies illustrate the influence of price path, particularly the ‘non-straight’ price path, on several aspects of investor decision-making. The paper employs an empirical proxy for price path based on convexity and demonstrates that price convexity significantly impacts the selling decisions with transaction-level data. We find that a price path that is likely to signal a favourable (unfavourable) price movement in the future lowers (heightens) the selling propensity of traders in stocks. The findings suggest that likely expectations about future price movement, as could be inferred from the experienced price path, significantly influence the trading decisions of retail traders.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2022.106616
- Volume
- 143
- Pages
- 106616
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib