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

question 113

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.
• E)the investor mood hypothesis.

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