"Broadly, financial market momentum occurs when past high returns are followed by subsequent high returns, while past low returns are similarly followed by subsequent low returns. It is claimed that the momentum phenomenon contravenes the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. Consequently, it has been...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Behavioural Finance and Momentum -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The failure of risk‐based explanations -- 1.3 Behavioural models of momentum -- 1.4 Slow information diffusion -- 1.5 Patterns in information...

We investigate the short-term relation between individual investor trading and stock returns on the Australian Securities Exchange. Stocks heavily bought by individual investors underperform stocks heavily sold over the subsequent three days, with respective returns on to a long-short portfolio...