Original paper

Stock market investors' use of stop losses and the disposition effect

Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 130 - 152
Published: Jun 1, 2015
Abstract
The disposition effect is an investment bias where investors hold stocks at a loss longer than stocks at a gain. This bias is associated with poorer investment performance and exhibited to a greater extent by investors with less experience and less sophistication. A method of managing susceptibility to the bias is through use of stop losses. Using the trading records of UK stock market individual investors from 2006 to 2009, this paper shows...
Paper Details
Title
Stock market investors' use of stop losses and the disposition effect
Published Date
Jun 1, 2015
Volume
23
Issue
2
Pages
130 - 152
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