Elaborate on performance of individual investors behavior in financial markets. Demonstrate vour ingenuitv and creativitv to up produce the best possible analysis of individual investors, their portfolio choice, performance, trading patterns, the effect that thev have on financial markets etc. Please cover all following points: Do individual investors possess skills / have Does the performance of individual investors have Do individual investors outperform when we Does the composition of their portfolio affect Persistence in individual investors performance information? Do they generate alpha? Sharpe ratio economically (dollar) implications on their wealth? account for the impact of their trades? performance of individual investors? Disposition effect Suggested sources: 1. Barber and Odean, 2001, Boys will be boys: gender, overconfidence, and common stock investment, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, 261-292 2. Barber and Odean, 2001, Trading is Hazardous to your Wealth: the common stock investment performance of individual investors, Journal of Finance 35, 773-806. 3. Bodnaruk, 2009, Proximity Always Matters: Local Bias When the Set of Local Companies Changes, Review of Finance 4. Bodnaruk and Simonov, 2015, Do Financial Experts Make Better Investment Decisions, Journal of Financial Intermediation 5. Campbel 2006, Household Finance 6. Coval, Hirshleifer, and Shumway, Can Individual Investors Beat the Market? 7. Dorn and Huberman, 2005, Talk and Action: What individual investors say and what they do, Review of Finance 8. Dorn and Huberman, 2010, Preferred risk habitat of individual investors, Journal of Financial Economics 9, Huberman, 2001, Familiarity Breeds Investment, Review of Financial Studies 1403), 659-680. 10. Ivkovich and Weisbenner, 2005, Local Does as Local is: Information content of the geography of individual investors common stock investments, Jounal of Finance 11. Odean, 1998, Are investors reluctant to realize their losses? Journal of Finance 53, 1775-1798. 12. Odean, 1999, Do investors trade too much? American Economic Review 89, 1279-1298. 13. Ivkovich, Sialm and Weisbenner, 2008, Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual Investors, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 14. Barber, Lee, Liu, and Odean, 2009, Just How much Do investor Lose from Trade? Review of Financial Studies, 609-632 15. Barber and Odean, 2008, All that Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutions Investors, Review of Financial Studies, 785-818 16. Barber and Odean, 2000, Trading is Hazardous to your Wealth the common stock investment performance of individual investors, Journal of Finance 17. Barber and Odean, 2002, Online Investors: Do the Slow Die First? Review of Financial Studies, 433-487 18. Barber, Odean, and Strahilevitz, 201, Once Buned, Twice Shy Naive Learning, Counterfactuals, and the Repurchsae of Stocks Previously Sold, Joumal of Marketing 19. Grinblatt and Keloharju, 2001, What makes investors trade? Journal of Finance, 589-615 20. Seasholes and Zhu, 2010, Individual Investors and Local Bias Journal of Finance 21. Shefrin and Statman, 1985, The disposition to sell winners too early and ride loser for too long: theory and evidence, Journal of Finance, 777-790, 22. Kaniel, Saar and Titman, Individual investor trading and stock Elaborate on performance of individual investors behavior in financial markets. Demonstrate vour ingenuitv and creativitv to up produce the best possible analysis of individual investors, their portfolio choice, performance, trading patterns, the effect that thev have on financial markets etc. Please cover all following points: Do individual investors possess skills / have Does the performance of individual investors have Do individual investors outperform when we Does the composition of their portfolio affect Persistence in individual investors performance information? Do they generate alpha? Sharpe ratio economically (dollar) implications on their wealth? account for the impact of their trades? performance of individual investors? Disposition effect Suggested sources: 1. Barber and Odean, 2001, Boys will be boys: gender, overconfidence, and common stock investment, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, 261-292 2. Barber and Odean, 2001, Trading is Hazardous to your Wealth: the common stock investment performance of individual investors, Journal of Finance 35, 773-806. 3. Bodnaruk, 2009, Proximity Always Matters: Local Bias When the Set of Local Companies Changes, Review of Finance 4. Bodnaruk and Simonov, 2015, Do Financial Experts Make Better Investment Decisions, Journal of Financial Intermediation 5. Campbel 2006, Household Finance 6. Coval, Hirshleifer, and Shumway, Can Individual Investors Beat the Market? 7. Dorn and Huberman, 2005, Talk and Action: What individual investors say and what they do, Review of Finance 8. Dorn and Huberman, 2010, Preferred risk habitat of individual investors, Journal of Financial Economics 9, Huberman, 2001, Familiarity Breeds Investment, Review of Financial Studies 1403), 659-680. 10. Ivkovich and Weisbenner, 2005, Local Does as Local is: Information content of the geography of individual investors common stock investments, Jounal of Finance 11. Odean, 1998, Are investors reluctant to realize their losses? Journal of Finance 53, 1775-1798. 12. Odean, 1999, Do investors trade too much? American Economic Review 89, 1279-1298. 13. Ivkovich, Sialm and Weisbenner, 2008, Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual Investors, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 14. Barber, Lee, Liu, and Odean, 2009, Just How much Do investor Lose from Trade? Review of Financial Studies, 609-632 15. Barber and Odean, 2008, All that Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutions Investors, Review of Financial Studies, 785-818 16. Barber and Odean, 2000, Trading is Hazardous to your Wealth the common stock investment performance of individual investors, Journal of Finance 17. Barber and Odean, 2002, Online Investors: Do the Slow Die First? Review of Financial Studies, 433-487 18. Barber, Odean, and Strahilevitz, 201, Once Buned, Twice Shy Naive Learning, Counterfactuals, and the Repurchsae of Stocks Previously Sold, Joumal of Marketing 19. Grinblatt and Keloharju, 2001, What makes investors trade? Journal of Finance, 589-615 20. Seasholes and Zhu, 2010, Individual Investors and Local Bias Journal of Finance 21. Shefrin and Statman, 1985, The disposition to sell winners too early and ride loser for too long: theory and evidence, Journal of Finance, 777-790, 22. Kaniel, Saar and Titman, Individual investor trading and stock