This paper investigates tools to counter excessive stock trading and increase profits for private households participating in the stock market. Creating a stylised hold or trade-scenario in a computer laboratory experiment, I find that by solely changing the information the participants receive,...

New media is playing an important role in the financial world. Rapid growth in stock market message boards, chat rooms, and other electronic means for investors to share market information makes clear the ever-increasing demand for online stock trading. In addition to an increasing number of...

The advances in trading technologies and networking infrastructures combined with the globalisation and competitive environment of the financial markets has increased the complexity and dynamics of markets making them difficult to understand and has raised a number of issues in relation to the...