Does Disagreement Facilitate Informed Trading? Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • Using high-frequency disagreement data from the investor social network StockTwits, we find that greater investor disagreement facilitates informed trading by activists and short sellers. These findings are unexplained by sentiment, news and retail order flow, and they remain when we measure disagreement overnight, which alleviates concern that disagreement and informed trading respond to a common shock. When short selling is costly, the facilitating effect of disagreement on trading is dampened for informed buyers but is amplified for sellers. These findings suggest that informed traders respond meaningfully to valuation changes induced by disagreement.

publication date

  • January 13, 2021

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  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • January 23, 2021 2:22 AM

Full Author List

  • Cookson JA; Fos V; Niessner M

author count

  • 3

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