We investigate the investment strategies of individual day traders in the Taiwan Index Futures market, along with their impact on market liquidity and volatility. Our results indicate a tendency among most individual day traders to behave as irrational contrarian traders. We also present...

We examine the effects of margin changes on futures trading activity, the composition of traders and market liquidity, using an account level data set from the Taiwan Futures Exchange. We find that margin increases reduce trading activity for all trader types, which is consistent with the...