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Can Individual Investors Beat the Market?
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We document strong persistence in the performance of trades of individual investors. The correlation of the risk-adjusted performance of an individual across sample periods is about 10 percent. Investors classified in the top performance decile in the first half of our sample subsequently outperform those in the bottom decile by about 8 percent per year. Strategies long in firms purchased by previously successful investors and short in firms purchased by previously unsuccessful investors earn abnormal returns of 5 basis points per day. These returns are not confined to small stocks nor to stocks in which the investors are likely to have inside information. Our results suggest that skillful individual investors exploit market inefficiencies to earn abnormal profits, above and beyond any profits available from well-known strategies based upon size, value, or momentum. Presentation slides are available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3217430
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“Several prior studies document that the lion's share of abnormal returns earned around an informed trade occurs immediately following the trade (e.g., Coval, Hirshleifer and Shumway (2005); Grinblatt, Keloharju, and Linnainmaa (2012); Barber, Lee, Liu, and Odean (2009)).”
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“Most of the gains (and losses) from trade tend to occur immediately following a trade (see Barber, Lee, Liu, and Odean (2009), Coval, Hirshleifer, and Shumway (2005), Grinblatt, Keloharju, and Linnainmaa (2012)).”
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- Coval, J. D., Hirshleifer, D., & Shumway, T.
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- Hirshleifer, David
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2003
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