This research is an attempt to explore the association between various demographical factors, risk profile and investment decision of retail investors. All measures were tested for reliability through computation of Cronbach's Alpha. The Alpha coefficient value was found 0.741 for variables like...

We study the effects of social media on the informativeness of retail investor trading. Our identification strategy exploits the editorial delay between report submission and publication on Seeking Alpha, a popular crowdsourced investment research platform. We find the ability of retail order...