Do Limit Orders Alter Inferences about Investor Performance and Behavior?

Juhani T. Linnainmaa

Journal of Finance, 2010, vol. 65, issue 4, 1473-1506

Abstract: Individual investors lose money around earnings announcements, experience poor posttrade returns, exhibit the disposition effect, and make contrarian trades. Using simulations and trading records of all individual investors in Finland, I find that these trading patterns can be explained in large part by investors' use of limit orders. These patterns arise mechanically because limit orders are price‐contingent and suffer from adverse selection. Reverse causality from behavioral biases to order choices does not appear to explain my findings. I propose a simple method for measuring a data set's susceptibility to this limit order effect.

Date: 2010
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