Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine stocks that are most actively discussed by online posters and see if the messages posted about these stocks have information or if they are just noise. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses messages posted on TheLion.com, which reports a...

Purpose – The paper seeks to show that marketing and psychology literature can shed light on why investors exhibit preferences for certain price ends. The perspective adopted is that the stock market is a marketplace in which investors, as consumers, buy and sell (i.e. exchange) financial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine stocks that are most actively discussed by online posters and see if the messages posted about these stocks have information or if they are just noise. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses messages posted on TheLion.com, which...