Round-number biases on trading time: Evidence from international markets

  • Tao CHEN*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal PublicationsJournal Article (refereed)peer-review

Abstract

In this article I investigate whether the round-number heuristic affects investors' selection of trading time in the international market. I document the existence of round-time biases, as evidenced by trading activities intensifying at second 0 of 1 min. Further examination suggests that the round-time anomaly is likely driven by algorithmic trading from institutional investors. Consistent with this inference, I demonstrate that round-time transactions carry value-relevant information, have the predictive power for intraday-level returns, and yield the positive daily trading revenue.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)469-495
Number of pages27
JournalJournal of Financial Research
Volume44
Issue number3
Early online date1 Apr 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2021
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association

Funding

I acknowledge the financial support from Multi‐Year Research Grant (MYRG2020‐00042‐FBA) at the University of Macau. All errors remain my own responsibility.

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