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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Investor Behavior at the 52-Week High
Contributor:
Della Vedova, Joshua;
Grant, Andrew;
Westerholm, P. Joakim
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023
Published in:
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 58 (2023) 7, Seite 2852-2889
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s002210902200148x
ISSN:
0022-1090;
1756-6916
Origination:
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Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This study uncovers how household investors intensify the effect of the 52-week high (52WH): increased volume and momentum-like returns at the 52WH price. Using daily household and institutional trading data, we find that households sharply increase their selling, particularly with limit orders at the 52WH price. This behavior is indicative of anchoring, as it is robust to past returns and intensified by proximity, market uncertainty, and salience of the 52WH. This uninformed limit order selling at and prior to the 52WH leads to a doubling of unconditional 52WH anomaly returns. Post-event returns benefit institutions, which act as counterparties.</jats:p>