Psychological aspects of stock returns accompanied by high trading volumes
Psychological aspects of stock returns accompanied by high trading volumes
Present study explores the effect of the availability heuristic (representing people's tendency to determine the likelihood of an event according to the easiness of recalling similar instances, and, thus, to overweight current information, as opposed to processing all relevant information) on stock price dynamics following days of extremely high trading volumes. I hypothesize that if the sign of a stock's return on the day when it registers an extremely high trading volume corresponds to the sig