Purpose: the paper aims at examining the existence of herding behaviour in two opposite market condition: bullish and bearish. Design/method/approach: Christie and Huang (1995) and Chang et al. (2000) Methods are used in the study. The sample includes daily and monthly data of listed companies...

This paper compares the trading patterns of amateurs to that of professional investors during the days following the weekend. The comparison is based on all the daily transactions of a sample of both amateurs and professionally managed investors in a major brokerage house in Israel between...