TY - BOOK ID - 8286255 TI - Retail investor sentiment and behavior : an empirical analysis PY - 2011 SN - 3834927139 3834961701 PB - Wiesbaden : Gabler Research, DB - UniCat KW - Investment analysis. KW - Investments. KW - Portfolio management. KW - Retail trade. KW - Sales promotion. KW - Selling. KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Banking KW - Investment & Speculation KW - Finance - General KW - Individual investors. KW - Private investors KW - Retail investors KW - Retail shareholders KW - Small investors KW - Investing KW - Investment management KW - Portfolio KW - Retail industry KW - Retailing KW - Finance. KW - Finance, general. KW - Stockholders KW - Disinvestment KW - Loans KW - Saving and investment KW - Speculation KW - Commerce KW - Marketing KW - Shopping centers KW - Wholesale trade KW - Funding KW - Funds KW - Economics KW - Currency question UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8286255 AB - Investor sentiment and behavior play an important role in financial markets. Using a unique data set consisting of more than 36.5 million submitted retail investor orders over the course of five years, Matthias Burghardt constructs an innovative retail investor sentiment index. He shows that retail investors’ trading decisions are correlated, that retail investors are contrarians, and that a profitable trading strategy can be based on these aggregated sentiment measures. ER -