We study the interaction between short sellers and other types of informed traders. Importantly, we find strong evidence that short sellers appear to have the upper hand in their competition against other informed traders. Our analytical results demonstrate that there is a positive relation...

Extending recent findings from Barber et al. (2022) and Welch (2022), we document that retail investors from the discount broker Robinhood swarm into stocks with pending earnings announcements and stay away from them immediately after the announcements. We study four competing explanations for...

We contribute with two principal findings that suggest a material role for 52-week-high price anchors in understanding the short-run behavior of one-month stock returns. First, we find that short-term momentum in high-turnover stocks is only evident for stocks whose prices are relatively close...