Elaborate on performance of individual investors behavior in financial markets.Demonstrate your ingenuity and creativity to up produce the best possible analysis of individual investors, their portfolio choice, performance, trading patterns, the effect that they have on financial markets etc. Please cover all following points:

- Do individual investors possess skills / have information? Do they generate alpha? Sharpe ratio.

- Does the performance of individual investors have economically (dollar) implications on their wealth?

- Do individual investors outperform when we account for the impact of their trades?

- Does the composition of their portfolio affect performance of individual investors?

- Persistence in individual investors performance

- Disposition effect

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