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Learning by Trading


Amit Seru


University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and NBER

Tyler Shumway


University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Noah Stoffman


Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Finance

September 2009

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 705-739, 2009

Abstract:     
Using a large sample of individual investor records over a nine-year period, we analyze survival rates, the disposition effect, and trading performance at the individual level to determine whether and how investors learn from their trading experience. We find evidence of two types of learning: some investors become better at trading with experience, while others stop trading after realizing that their ability is poor. A substantial part of overall learning by trading is explained by the second type. By ignoring investor attrition, the existing literature significantly overestimates how quickly investors become better at trading.

Keywords: D10, G10

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Date posted: February 1, 2010  

Suggested Citation

Seru, Amit, Shumway, Tyler and Stoffman, Noah, Learning by Trading (September 2009). The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 705-739, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1544160 or http://dx.doi.org/hhp060

Contact Information

Amit Seru (Contact Author)
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and NBER ( email )
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
United States

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Tyler Shumway
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor ( email )
Ross School of Business
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
United States
734-763-4129 (Phone)
734-936-0274 (Fax)
HOME PAGE: http://www.umich.edu/~shumway
Noah Stoffman
Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Finance ( email )
1309 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
United States
(812) 856-5664 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://kelley.iu.edu/nstoffma/
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