We examine whether Hungarian investors liquidate their winning investments too early and close their losing positions too late. We analyze 130 university students' trading activity for 2009 and 2010. We investigate the disposition effect by four distinct methodologies: by the realized and...

The disposition effect is a well-established phenomenon which describes the behavior of investors that are more willing to sell capital gains than capital losses. In this article we present experimental evidence on a situation where an investor decides on behalf of another person. In our...