Article: Trading volume and dispersion of the realized stock returns.

ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the effect of realized stock returns on future trading volume. It shows that for a given group of stocks the increase in the dispersion of their lagged realized returns results in higher trading volume. The paper argues that this effect may be due to the coexistence of two groups of traders on the market. liquidity traders who follow momentum trading strategies and risky arbitrageurs.

Keywords: Trading Volume, Stock Return

1. INTRODUCTION

Existing research shows that stock returns and trading volume affect each other. Conrad, Hamed, and Niden (1994), Gervais, Kaniel, and Mongelgrin (2001), Lee and ...

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