An examination of the relationship between the disposition effect and gender, age, the traded security, and bull–bear market conditions

Teng Yuan Cheng, Chun I Lee and Chao Hsien Lin

Journal of Empirical Finance, 2013, vol. 21, issue C, 195-213

Abstract: We analyze how gender and age, internal characteristics of retail futures traders—one that remains fixed while the other changes over a lifetime—and the security being traded and bull–bear market conditions, two external factors, are related to the disposition effect by separately tracking their trade-by-trade transaction histories over a period of close to six years on the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX). We show that women and mature traders, compared with their male and younger counterparts, exhibit a stronger disposition effect. The effect is also stronger among traders who trade financial-sector futures contracts than among those who trade electronic-sector futures contracts. We further demonstrate that a bear market sees a stronger disposition effect.

Keywords: Behavioral finance; Disposition effect; Innate characteristics; External factor; Bull–bear markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G12 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2013.01.003

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