Technical Analysis, Investment Psychology, and Liquidity Provision: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Market

Hung-Wei Lai, Cheng-Wei Chen and Chin-Sheng Huang

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2010, vol. 46, issue 5, 18-38

Abstract: We set out to empirically identify the effects on technical signals attributable to psychological biases, adopting a set of specific liquidity provision proxies for a sample of firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The main findings of our empirical analysis are that the "disposition," "information cascade," and "anchoring" effects each have significant impacts on trading signals. Our results should help to shed further light on the asymmetric market responses to technical buy and sell signals, while also providing some potential clarification of the different attitudes of traders toward big-cap and small-cap firms.

Keywords: anchoring effect; disposition effect; information cascade; technical analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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