Individual Investors' Tendency to Trade Too Much Based on the Mistaken

question 30

Multiple Choice

Individual investors' tendency to trade too much based on the mistaken belief that they can pick winners and losers better than investment professionals is known as ________.

• A) the disposition effect
• B) the investor attention hypothesis
• C) the investor overconfidence hypothesis
• D) the excessive trading costs hypothesis

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