The disposition effect is a well-documented behavioural anomaly where investors tend to sell assets that have appreciated in value prematurely while holding on to depreciating ones for too long. This ...

Research consistently finds that investors, and their advisers, are too quick to sell winners and too slow to sell losers. The phenomenon has a name — the disposition effect — and it’s highly studied ...

We analyze brokerage data and an experiment to test a cognitive dissonance based theory of trading: investors avoid realizing losses because they dislike admitting that past purchases were mistakes, ...

It turns out good old-fashioned human behavior can result in a waterfall decline in stocks like Nvidia Corporation and Microsoft Corporation. The Disposition Effect is an investment behavior where ...

Now there is -- I will say about the disposition effect that the less famous the stock is, the stronger the disposition effect tends to be. Stocks like NVIDIA, for example, are an example of ...