Regret Commission versus Regret Omission: Evidence from the Taiwan Futures Exchange Yi-Ling Chen Department of Asia-Pacific Industrial and Business Management National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan TEL: 886-7-5916571 [email protected] Ming-Chun Wang Department of Money and Banking, College of Finance and Banking, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan TEL: 886-7-6011000 ext.3128 [email protected] Teng Yuan Cheng∗ School of Finance, Nanjing Audit University, PR China TEL: 86-25-58318523 [email protected] Key Words: regret of commission, regret of omission, risk-taking JEL: G02, G11 * Corresponding author, We wish to thank Taiwan Futures Exchange for making the data available. 1 Regret Commission versus Regret Omission: Evidence from the Taiwan Futures Exchange Abstract This study proposes a proxy to measure the degree of regret for prior investment decision and examines the regret theory suggested by Bell (1982) and Loomes and Sugden (1982). Utilizing data on market participants in Taiwan’s futures markets, we support the Kahnmenan and Tversky (1982)’s finding: regret of commission makes decision-makers more risk-averse; on the contrary, regret of omission induces them more risk-seeking in the future. We provide proper understandings and valuable insights of the attitude toward risks of the prior regret of investors into their investment behavior. Key Words: regret of commission, regret of omission, risk-taking JEL: G02, G11 2 I. Introdution As a proverb says “Regret eats your heart out”. Human beings feel regret and disappointed after their prior errors of judgment or undoing optimal choice (Bell, 1982, 1983; Landman, 1987a, 1987b, 1993; Loomes and Sugden, 1982, 1983; Sugden, 1985). Simonson (1992) further defines regret is a kind of sorrow of a decision maker due to the outcome of a comparison between something done or not done. Kahnmenan and Tversky (1982) also suggest that people feel more regret while a negative outcome of action (regret of commission) rather than inaction (regret of omission). The former will make them more riskaverse, but the latter will make them more risk-seeking in the future. In this paper, we examine the extent to which regret influence the attitude of risk of futures investors’ behavior. It is important for several reasons to discuss whether regret influences investors’ investment decisions. First, Bell (1982) and Loomes and Sugden (1982) foremost proposed the regret theory to successfully explain some violations of the traditional economic axioms, assuming rational agents will consider not only their expected payoffs but also regret (opportunity losses) to maximize their utility. Many studies apply regret theory to financial field such as demand for insurance, asset pricing, investment choices, asset allocation and equity home bias (Braun and Muermann, 2004; Dodonova and Khoroshilov, 2005; Michenaud and Solnik, 2008; Muermann, Mitchell and Volkman, 2006; Solnik, 2005). Therefore, regret theory is another psychological model to assume rational agents whose utilities are not limited to their monetary payoffs to explain their economic behavior. Second, psychological research on the experience of regret of decision makers can be found in Inman and Zeelenberg (2002), Markman et al., (1993) and Roese and Olson (1995). They show that decision makers tend to be less regret to maintain the status than to change it. Also, a large number of experimental studies demonstrate people experience regret more strongly while taking actions rather than inaction (Baron and Ritov, 1994; Connolly, Ordòñez, and Coughlan, 1997; Gilovich and Medvec, 1994, 1995; Gilovich, Medvec, and Chen, 1995; Gleicher et al., 1990; Kahneman and Miller, 1986; Kahnmenan and Tversky, 1982; Landman, 1987a, 1987b, 1993; Miller and Taylor, 1995; N’gbala and Branscombe, 1997; Ordòñez and Connolly, 2000; Ritov and Baron, 1995; Spranca, Minsk and Baron, 1991; Zeelenberg et al., 1996; Zeelenberg, Van der Pligt, and Manstead, 1998; Zeelenberg, Van Dijk, and Manstead, 3 1998, 2000). Consequently, regret of commission causes people to take less risks, but regret of omission results people in taking more risks. Third, in financial markets, many empirical studies conclude that investors are susceptible to realizing winning investment too soon while holding onto losing investment for too long in order to avoid regret in the future, exhibiting disposition effect (Dhar and Zhu, 2006; Genesove and Mayer, 2001; Han and Grinblatt, 2005; Heath, Huddart and Lang, 1999; Odean, 1998; Shefrin and Statman, 1985; Weber and Camerer, 1998). Kahneman and Tversky (1979) offer prospect theory to explain the relationship between prior outcome and subsequent attitude toward risks. These studies suggest that regret will influence investors’ attitude toward risks. In sum, a proper understanding of the attitude toward risks of the prior regret of investors may provide valuable insights into their investment behavior. However, financial empirical literature on the relationship between the degree of prior regret and subsequent risk-taking is scare. Our study tries to measure the magnitude of pervious regret of investors to examine whether it can affect their attitude toward risk-taking. Accordingly, our main contribution is that I initially offer a proxy to measure the degree of prior regret of investment decision. In addition, based on Kahnmenan and Tversky (1982)’s finding: regret of commission makes decision makers more risk-averse. On the contrary, regret of omission induces them more risk-seeking in the future. Therefore the main hypothesis of this paper is posited as follows: Hypothesis: Investors' propensity to take more risks after their regret of omission rather than regret of commission toward pervious investment decisions. II. Sample and Methodology The primary dataset for this study consists of all intraday futures transaction and limit order book records from the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) for 992 trading days between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2007. The contracts are Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index futures (TX, hereafter), Taiwan Stock Exchange. Our data includes identifiers for the traders’ ID codes and whether the trade was a buy or sell, as 4 well as the price, the volume and the time for each transaction and order. In our sample, there are 237,188 investors trading in the futures market during the four-year sample period. Precisely following the approach in Coval and Shumway (2005) and Liu et al. (2010), we study whether morning regret influence investors' risk-taking in the afternoon1. This very short period offers a clean context for studying how prior regret influences subsequent behavior. We then take the following steps to calculate investors’ degree of regret and the level of risks that they subsequently take. First, we identify all trades on different futures contracts made by each investor on every trading day. Within each trading day, we divide all trades into morning versus afternoon trades using the time of the trade. Trading sessions begin at 8:45 a.m. and close at 1:45 p.m. at TAIFEX. Therefore, we classify trades before the mid-point of 11:15 a.m. as morning trades and those afterwards as afternoon trades2. To determine whether an investor feels regret toward his investment decision in a morning, we compare the cancel (reducing quantity) order purchasing (selling) price and order purchasing (selling) price which doesn’t make a transaction for each futures purchased (sold) in the morning to the transaction price at 11:15 a.m.3 to determine whether that futures is purchased (sold) for an opportunity gain or loss. We aggregate all opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning to proxy the degree of morning regret of omission per trader (cREGRETm, rREGRETm). Similarly, we compare the transaction purchasing (selling) price in the morning to the transaction price at 11:15 a.m. to determine whether that futures is purchased (sold) for an opportunity gain or loss. We aggregate all opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning as a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of commission per trader (iREGRETm). Besides, we also consider the quantity-weighted the morning regret of omission (cwREGRETm, rwREGRETm) and commission (iwREGRETm). As with risk taking in the afternoon trading session, the following proxies are used: We also examine whether prior daily regret influences investors' subsequent daily risk-taking. We also perform robustness check in which using 11 a.m. and 12 a.m. as the break-point to separate morning versus afternoon trades. 3 Because trading may be sparse on some trading days, we look for the prevailing price within the half-hour window around 11:15 a.m. and use the price that is closest to 11:15 a.m. 1 2 5 the number of orders and the number of trades. These measures reflect how actively investors engage themselves in trading and serve as noisy proxies for risk-taking.4 Because of trader heterogeneity and high market volatility, morning regret, profit and afternoon risk level can introduce significant noise to our analyses. Following Coval and Shumway (2005), we control for this by normalizing the morning regret, profit and afternoon risk measures. We calculate the mean and standard deviation of morning regret (profit) for each trader and then demean each trader’s morning regret (profit) by the trader-specific average of morning regret (profit) and divide each trader’s daily morning regret (profit) by the standard deviation to obtain the trader’s normalized morning regret (profit). The normalized afternoon risk measures are defined in a similar fashion. We calculate the mean and standard deviation of the afternoon risks for each trader. We then demean each trader’s afternoon risk by the trader-specific average of afternoon risk and divide the difference by the trader-specific standard deviation of afternoon risk. We demean all measures with the average measure for the trader in order to trace any ‘abnormal’ afternoon trading behavior. We denote trader i’s normalized measure of afternoon risk on date t as RISKai to reflect trader i’s various afternoon risk measures on date t. By construction, our risk measures have means of zero and standard deviations of one for each trader. In addition to examine our hypothesis: Investors' propensity to take more risks after their regret of omission rather than regret of commission toward pervious investment decisions. We separate morning regret of omission from morning regret of commission of our sample and perform the following regressions to gain additional understanding about the magnitude and robustness of the results separately. We next perform the following regression analyses to directly control for the difference5 RISKa= a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 *PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is one of the measures of risk-taking in the afternoon. REGRETm is the morning regret for each trader, calculated as the sum of the opportunity losses. PROFITm captures the trading profit, which influences the traders’ risk attitude after morning trading. We also Coval and Shumway (2005) also use the number of trades, trade sizes and total dollar risk. Liu et al. (2008) use the number of orders, the number of trades, order size, trade size and the ratio of trades to orders. Locke and Mann (2005) and O’Connell and Teo (2005) use VaR approach for positions in foreign currencies futures and foreign currencies. 5 We also perform alternative specifications where we include the daily return and intra-day volatility of the TAIEX index. 4 6 include the morning risk-taking to control for the findings that traders take greater or less morning risks when they feel regret during morning sessions. III. Empirical Results We first relate afternoon risk measures to the outcome of morning trading sessions with summary statistics in Table I. INDIVs execute the lowest average daily number of trades/orders in the morning(5.08/6.32), compared to the other traders. Among all institutions, QFIIs place the highest average daily number of trades in the morning. Regarding the average daily morning number of orders, we found that the highest average daily morning number was 482.13 for DBs. The average daily afternoon number of orders for INDIVs, QFIIs and DBs was 6.35, 233.40 and 449.50, respectively, in the futures market. The daily afternoon number of trades was 160.22 for QFIIs, which was the highest among all types of traders, while individuals traded only 5.41 times per day. These results indicate that professional traders (QFIIs and DBs) traded frequently, and this was especially true for QFIIs. As for average daily morning profit, QFIIs make highest morning profit. With regard to the measures of regret of commission or regret of omission, DBs were the most one among all types of traders. (Insert Table 1 about here) Table 2 reports the different afternoon risk measures for trading days with morning gains and losses. Of three types of traders and two measures of risk-taking, four show increasing and two show decreasing risk-taking behavior in Panel A. Generally speaking, most of the measures show increasing risk-taking behavior in the afternoon for morning profitable traders, especially for QFIIs. The result shown in Panel B seems contrary. That is, of three types of traders and two measures of risk-taking, four show decreasing and two show increasing risk-taking behavior in Panel B. Generally speaking, most of the measures show decreasing risk-taking behavior in the afternoon for morning unprofitable traders, especially for QFIIs. The most striking result comparing Panel B with A is that the afternoon risk for morning unprofitable traders are lower than for morning profitable traders. INDIVs with morning profits place more orders (0.01238 vs. –0.01953), execute more trades (0.00458 vs. –0.00708), and place significantly larger orders and trades after morning profits. QFIIs and DBs also show the same trading behavior as INDIVs. 7 (Insert Table 2 about here) In Table 3, we test the above differences and the result are significant at the one percent significance level except QFIIs in number of trade measure. Regret of commission is significantly increases in the afternoon for individual traders. However institutional traders show insignificant change for regret of commission in the afternoon. We interpret the result as individual traders are naive and regret their commission often; moreover; however because institutional traders must follow institutional regulation, they do not show significant regret of commission after their trades. Regarding delete order in regret of omission, individual traders still show significantly decreases in the afternoon. Institutional traders still show insignificantly change about delete order regret in the afternoon except measure dregret in DBs. The result in regret of reduced order reports significantly increases in the afternoon for individual traders and specially, the same for QFIIs. Yet DBs still show insignificant change. Last, we examine whether regret of omission is greater than regret of commission. We use difference between the deleted order regret (dregret, dwregret) and the realized regret (iregret, iwregret). Similarly the result is significant for individual traders but insignificant for institutional traders. Generally speaking, individual traders show significant change in regret of commission and omission in the afternoon, yet institutional traders show few significant change no matter regret of commission or omission in the afternoon. The results mean individual traders have no a constant trading discipline, yet institutional traders are regulated by some trading rule. (Insert Table 3 about here) In Table 4 and 5 we present results on afternoon risk taking and morning regret of commission across all three types of investors. For the OLS results in Table 4, an increase of one standard deviation in morning regret of commission leads to a change of approximately 3, and 3 percent of one standard deviation in the afternoon number of trades, orders, respectively for INDIVs. Although the coefficients on the afternoon number of trades and orders are small, they are statistically significant. As for QFIIs, we obtain very similar results. An increase of one standard deviation yields a change of 4, and 2 percent of one standard deviation in the afternoon number of trades, and orders, respectively. 8 Such findings provide strong support that INDIVs and QFIIs decrease their risk taking after morning regret of commission. Next, using the quantity-weighted the morning regret of commission in Table 5, we find INDIVs display risk-averse after their morning regret of commission. An increase of one standard deviation yields a change of 1, and 2 percent of one standard deviation in the afternoon number of trades, and orders, respectively for INDIVs. (Insert Table 4 about here) (Insert Table 5 about here) On the other hand, how did the traders display their attitude of risk after morning regret of omission? We first present results on afternoon risk taking and morning regret of omission when executing the reducing quantity order in the morning. Although the coefficients on the afternoon number of trades and orders are small, they are statistically significant. Next, using another proxy variable, the quantity-weighted the morning regret of omission, in Table 7, we obtain very similar results that five types of traders don’t show more risk-taking after the morning regret of omission. We admit the reducing quantity order is not suitable to proxy the morning regret of omission. Therefore, we adopt the cancel orders to replace the reducing quantity order. (Insert Table 6 about here) (Insert Table 7 about here) In Table 8, we first present results on afternoon risk taking and morning regret of omission when executing the cancel orders in the morning. INDIVs, QFIIs and DBs have a tendency towards take more risk after morning regret of omission. An increase of one standard deviation yields a change of 4, 4, and 4 percent of one standard deviation in the afternoon number of trades for INDIVs, QFIIs and DBs, respectively. While an increase of one standard deviation leads a change of 2, 4, and 4 percent of one standard deviation in the afternoon number of orders for INDIVs, QFIIs and DBs, respectively. The results support our main hypothesis. (Insert Table 8 about here) 9 (Insert Table 9 about here) IV. Conclusions The main contribution of this study is that we initially offer a proxy to measure the degree of prior regret of investment decision and examine the regret theory suggested by Bell (1982) and Loomes and Sugden (1982). In addition, we try to not only bridge the gap between the psychological literature and financial literature in terms of the relationship between pervious regret and subsequent risk-taking but also distinguish regret of commission from regret of omission of investors’ attitude toward risk-taking (Kahnmenan and Tversky, 1982). Utilizing data on market participants in Taiwan’s futures markets, we make an attempt to shed light on the decision-making process and complexity of human behavior in financial markets. Our findings emphasize that it is important to study not only how the reference point is determined and how it influences behavior in isolated context, but also how people frame a series of related events relative to dynamic benchmarks. 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We use cancel (reducing quantity) order to aggregate all opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning to proxy the degree of morning regret of omission per trader (cREGRETm, rREGRETm). On the other hand, we aggregate all transaction of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning as a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of commission per trader (iREGRETm). Besides, we also consider the quantity-weighted the morning regret of omission (cwREGRETm, rwREGRETm) and commission (iwREGRETm). Morning profit is calculated by estimating the realized profit/loss for the liquidating positions at 11:15 a.m. at each trading day for each trader. Number of trades and orders are the number of TX futures trades/orders that each trader executed during the respective time period. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. 14 Morning Variable Mean Median St. Dev. Afternoon Mean Median St. Dev. All Trader-Days Whole Period 1/1/2004-12/31/2007 (N=4,187,648) INDIVs QFIIs iREGRET -0.00055 -0.00053 0.03134 0.00009 0.00000 0.03640 iwREGRET -0.00024 -0.00044 0.00619 0.00011 -0.00009 0.00567 rREGRET 0.02763 0.01000 0.07780 0.01121 0.00416 0.04138 rwREGRET 0.01711 0.00866 0.03856 0.00823 0.00366 0.02287 cREGRET 0.01418 0.00438 0.08626 0.00939 0.00285 0.14773 cwREGRET 0.00563 0.00286 0.01598 0.00309 0.00187 0.00919 PROFIT $225.31 $1,200.00 $265,270.65 $1,529.25 $1,200.00 $858,204.75 NO of Trades 5.08 3.00 16.14 5.41 2.00 18.17 NO of Orders 6.32 3.00 21.40 6.35 3.00 24.69 iREGRET -0.01068 -0.00154 0.66244 0.01615 0.00092 0.93844 iwREGRET 0.00016 -0.00009 0.00641 0.00008 0.00005 0.00691 rREGRET 0.07003 0.02536 0.12452 0.02131 0.00364 0.08968 rwREGRET 0.02808 0.01393 0.03349 0.00716 0.00237 0.01609 cREGRET 0.45742 0.01247 2.24386 0.43639 0.00777 2.37061 cwREGRET 0.00645 0.00203 0.02153 0.00309 0.00147 0.01067 $738,515.30 $3,400.00 $16,150,469.3 $2,405,010 $21,200.00 $29,316,450.7 NO of Trades 164.57 74.00 246.73 160.22 68.50 265.92 NO of Orders 245.12 55.00 541.29 233.40 58.00 533.76 iREGRET -0.01734 -0.00139 0.46601 -0.02640 -0.00107 0.44629 iwREGRET -0.00017 0.00000 0.00827 -0.00045 -0.00010 0.00778 rREGRET 0.19224 0.02514 0.49879 0.04075 0.00833 0.20781 rwREGRET 0.15427 0.01259 0.45154 0.02032 0.00459 0.07793 cREGRET 0.97447 0.03946 6.97627 0.90174 0.01295 6.20088 cwREGRET 0.02756 0.00756 0.07702 0.01235 0.00316 0.03094 $12,882.48 $2,800.00 $2,972,752.35 $73,927.69 $6,200.00 $7,360,473.23 NO of Trades 151.29 60.00 327.49 142.29 53.00 975.80 NO of Orders 482.13 50.00 1532.41 449.50 44.00 1524.65 PROFIT DBs PROFIT 15 Table 2. Risk Taking for Profitable and Losing Morning There are 2,436,221 trader/day observations with morning profits in panel A and 1,751,427 trader/day observations with morning losses in panel B between 1/2/2004 and 12/31/2007. We use cancel (reducing quantity) order to aggregate all opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning to proxy the degree of morning regret of omission per trader (cREGRETm, rREGRETm). On the other hand, we aggregate all transaction of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning as a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of commission per trader (iREGRETm). Besides, we also consider the quantity-weighted the morning regret of omission (cwREGRETm, rwREGRETm) and commission (iwREGRETm). Morning profit is calculated by estimating the realized profit/loss for the liquidating positions at 11:15 a.m. at each trading day for each trader. Number of trades and orders are the number of TX futures trades/orders that each trader executed during the respective time period. All variables are first demeaned and then standardized by dividing the raw observation by the trader-specific standard deviation. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Panel A Risk Taking for Profitable Morning Morning Variable Mean Median St. Dev. Afternoon Mean Median St. Dev. Observations with Morning Profits (N=2,436,221) Normalized by Trader INDIVs QFIIs iREGRET -0.19758 -0.17464 0.91412 0.00453 -0.04508 0.96216 iwREGRET -0.23507 -0.22266 0.90347 0.00077 -0.05335 0.95757 rREGRET -0.00955 -0.29157 0.92134 -0.00115 -0.30427 0.93644 rwREGRET -0.01097 -0.25387 0.92081 -0.00201 -0.29062 0.93440 cREGRET 0.01620 -0.17101 0.95335 0.00091 -0.14647 0.95808 cwREGRET 0.02315 -0.12828 0.95069 0.00079 -0.10425 0.95777 PROFIT 1.01236 0.94622 9.17449 0.88366 0.91713 12.84642 NO of Trades -0.00513 -0.24996 0.96642 0.00458 -0.30790 0.97008 NO of Orders 0.01612 -0.22620 0.97882 0.01238 -0.27689 0.97551 iREGRET -0.03205 0.01510 1.02286 0.01160 -0.00708 1.09407 iwREGRET -0.04241 -0.02572 1.02250 -0.00216 0.00748 1.05488 rREGRET 0.00222 -0.35657 1.05018 0.01648 -0.31828 1.01815 rwREGRET -0.05523 -0.32410 0.91994 0.02054 -0.31701 0.96497 cREGRET 0.02987 -0.15979 1.05528 0.00703 -0.17234 1.05817 16 DBs cwREGRET 0.05132 -0.11037 1.06279 0.00249 -0.11014 1.04152 PROFIT -9.46679 0.72408 166.71830 -5.16202 0.77657 325.14378 NO of Trades 0.00896 -0.31536 0.99063 0.01129 -0.32391 0.99430 NO of Orders 0.00736 -0.32413 0.98450 0.00887 -0.32169 0.98085 iREGRET -0.05235 0.00926 0.91055 0.01002 0.05055 1.00043 iwREGRET -0.09615 -0.07078 0.97064 0.00676 0.03030 0.96521 rREGRET 0.01580 -0.28174 1.03938 0.01463 -0.23664 1.10268 rwREGRET 0.01338 -0.26035 1.06190 0.00568 -0.25424 1.00603 cREGRET 0.01041 -0.23467 0.98899 0.00178 -0.20142 0.97425 cwREGRET 0.02214 -0.23531 1.02636 0.00912 -0.21134 1.02375 PROFIT 0.27346 0.96744 15.84333 0.26977 0.97148 64.67984 NO of Trades -0.00260 -0.25451 0.99373 0.00482 -0.22505 1.02740 NO of Orders 0.01244 -0.27783 1.00051 0.00919 -0.28946 1.00448 Panel B Risk Taking for Losing Morning Morning Variable Mean Median St. Dev. Afternoon Mean Median St. Dev. Observations with Morning Losses (N= 1,751,427) Normalized by Trader INDIVs QFIIs iREGRET 0.27731 0.21170 0.99857 -0.00701 -0.02183 0.98329 iwREGRET 0.32993 0.29180 0.98468 -0.00119 -0.01423 0.99022 rREGRET 0.01974 -0.27281 0.94956 0.00233 -0.30592 0.94393 rwREGRET 0.02267 -0.22763 0.95052 0.00408 -0.28947 0.94803 cREGRET -0.02624 -0.20989 0.99279 -0.00161 -0.14895 0.97062 cwREGRET -0.03750 -0.18747 0.99634 -0.00139 -0.10831 0.97115 PROFIT 0.77683 0.94151 9.65873 0.89440 0.93868 21.59834 NO of Trades 0.00721 -0.24347 0.99883 -0.00708 -0.33158 0.97905 NO of Orders -0.02265 -0.26965 0.98011 -0.01953 -0.31773 0.97096 iREGRET 0.03316 0.03490 0.96308 -0.01193 -0.00538 0.87943 iwREGRET 0.04387 0.02248 0.96263 0.00222 0.01240 0.92751 rREGRET -0.00263 -0.35815 0.87426 -0.01896 -0.29691 0.94222 17 DBs rwREGRET 0.06527 -0.26371 1.02949 -0.02364 -0.32113 1.00439 cREGRET -0.03074 -0.18387 0.92584 -0.00732 -0.17027 0.92186 cwREGRET -0.05281 -0.14781 0.91497 -0.00259 -0.10037 0.94143 PROFIT 19.63508 1.12472 622.03209 3.14964 1.09200 185.91683 NO of Trades -0.00927 -0.34392 0.99833 -0.01161 -0.33463 0.99382 NO of Orders -0.00761 -0.35089 1.00460 -0.00916 -0.34385 1.00790 iREGRET 0.05674 0.05465 1.08240 -0.01095 0.04797 0.99584 iwREGRET 0.10421 0.08382 1.01706 -0.00738 0.02180 1.03320 rREGRET -0.01801 -0.27270 0.94339 -0.01634 -0.23123 0.86425 rwREGRET -0.01526 -0.26085 0.91444 -0.00634 -0.25895 0.98737 cREGRET -0.01140 -0.25343 1.00812 -0.00196 -0.20136 1.02376 cwREGRET -0.02425 -0.25816 0.96588 -0.01002 -0.21297 0.96909 PROFIT 1.46489 1.01322 25.19444 0.90830 1.00892 21.89853 NO of Trades 0.00282 -0.25239 1.00305 -0.00527 -0.24354 0.96549 NO of Orders -0.01348 -0.30477 0.99562 -0.01001 -0.30811 0.99134 18 Table 3 Tests of the Difference of Risk-taking between Morning and Afternoon This table tests the differences between morning and afternoon risk-taking and regret (including commission and omission). There are 2,436,221 trader/day observations during 1/2/2004 to 12/31/2007. We use cancel (reducing quantity) order to aggregate all opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning to proxy the degree of morning regret of omission per trader (cREGRETm, rREGRETm). On the other hand, we aggregate all transaction of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning as a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of commission per trader (iREGRETm). Besides, we also consider the quantity-weighted the morning regret of omission (cwREGRETm, rwREGRETm) and commission (iwREGRETm). Number of trades and orders are the number of TX futures trades/orders that each trader executed during the respective time period. All variables are first demeaned and then standardized by dividing the raw observation by the trader-specific standard deviation. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Investor code INDIVs QFIIs DBs Variable Difference T-value P-value D.F. Number of trade Number of Order Iregret(realize) Iwregret(weight ed realize) dregret(delete) dwregret(delete ) rregret(reduce) rwregret(reduce ) Dreg-ireg Dwreg-iwreg Number of trade Number of Order Iregret(realize) Iwregret(weight ed realize) dregret(delete) dwregret(delete ) rregret(reduce) rwregret(reduce ) Dreg-ireg Dwreg-iwreg Number of trade Number of Order Iregret(realize) -0.0390 -63.63 <0.0001 4370471 -0.0644 -121.42 <0.0001 5547191 0.0554 0.0592 79.36 87.92 <0.0001 <0.0001 4369941 4369941 -0.0417 -0.0170 -36.17 -15.35 <0.0001 <0.0001 1454335 1454335 0.0158 0.0282 5.10 9.07 <0.0001 <0.0001 166467 166467 0.00618 -0.00186 -0.0119 5.71 -1.80 -1.37 <0.0001 0.0724 0.1715 2292682 2292682 12683 -0.0234 -2.99 0.0028 13403 0.00726 0.00243 0.57 0.20 0.5687 0.8440 12683 12683 -0.00519 0.0150 -0.38 1.14 0.7048 0.2533 9811 9811 0.1799 0.2801 2.58 4.83 0.0101 <0.0001 462 462 0.00421 -0.00468 -0.0276 0.26 -0.29 -3.17 0.7932 0.7700 0.0015 12222 12222 31609 -0.0415 -7.03 <0.0001 33085 0.00319 0.39 0.6958 31609 19 Iwregret(weight ed realize) dregret(delete) dwregret(delete ) rregret(reduce) rwregret(reduce ) Dreg-ireg Dwreg-iwreg 0.00439 0.56 0.5779 31609 -0.0181 -0.00174 -2.37 -0.22 0.0176 0.8254 25551 25551 0.0194 0.0296 1.09 1.62 0.2771 0.1049 5946 5946 0.00694 0.00580 0.70 0.61 0.4825 0.5443 27448 27448 Table 4. Morning Regret of Commission and Afternoon Risk Taking (Regret after Transaction) We present parameter estimates and the corresponding t-statistics by fitting the data with pooled OLS regression. The regression specification takes the form of Equation (1) in Section 2: RISKa = a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 * PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is the measure of risk-taking in the afternoon. We adopt two different measures of risktaking: the number of trades and the number of orders. REGRETm is a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of commission per trader (iREGRETm) which is aggregated all transaction of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning. PROFITm is the morning realized profit for each trader. RISKm is the corresponding risk-taking measure in the morning. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Dependent Variable: Riska Number of Trades Indep.Var. Intercept REGRETm PROFITm CROSSm RISKm Number of Orders INDIVs QFIIs DBs INDIVs QFIIs DBs coef -0.0461*** -0.0354*** -0.0166*** -0.0513*** -0.0382*** -0.0181*** t-stat (-70.02) (-3.97) (-3.27) (-82.43) (-4.52) (-4.05) coef t-stat -0.0255*** -0.0426*** -0.0178*** -0.0291*** -0.0162* -0.0010 (-39.05) (-4.78) (-3.46) (-46.68) (-1.91) (-0.23) coef t-stat 0.0025*** 0.0011 0.0187*** 0.0023*** -0.0116 0.0137*** (3.52) (0.12) (3.72) (3.49) (-1.37) (3.06) coef t-stat coef t-stat -0.0054*** (-15.35) 0.0031 (1.05) -0.0007 (-0.48) -0.0045*** (-13.32) 0.0057** (2.03) -0.0013 (-1.06) 0.2549*** 0.5433*** 0.5545*** 0.3084*** 0.5941*** 0.6705*** (405.46) (62.51) (110.22) (515.01) (72.18) (150.55) 20 Table 5. Morning Regret of Commission and Afternoon Risk Taking (QuantityWeighted Regret after Transaction) We present parameter estimates and the corresponding t-statistics by fitting the data with pooled OLS regression. The regression specification takes the form of Equation (1) in Section 2: RISKa = a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 * PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is the measure of risk-taking in the afternoon. We adopt two different measures of risktaking: the number of trades and the number of orders. REGRETm is a proxy to measure the degree of quantity-weighted morning regret of commission per trader (iwREGRETm) which is aggregated all quantity-weighted transaction of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning. PROFITm is the morning realized profit for each trader. RISKm is the corresponding risk-taking measure in the morning. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Dependent Variable: Riska Number of Trades Indep.Var. Intercept REGRETm PROFITm CROSSm RISKm Number of Orders INDIVs QFIIs DBs INDIVs QFIIs DBs coef -0.0460*** -0.0358*** -0.0165*** -0.0513*** -0.0387*** -0.0181*** t-stat (-69.60) (-4.01) (-3.25) (-81.95) (-4.57) (-4.05) coef t-stat -0.0145*** -0.0131 -0.0034 -0.0182*** 0.0017 0.0029 (-21.04) (-1.43) (-0.68) (-27.83) (0.19) (0.63) coef t-stat 0.0054*** 0.0012 0.0194*** 0.0051*** -0.0132 0.0137*** (7.63) (0.13) (3.84) (7.60) (-1.57) (3.06) coef t-stat coef t-stat -0.0056*** (-13.37) -0.0056 (-0.98) 0.0019 (0.71) -0.0047*** (-11.68) -0.0017 (-0.32) -0.0014 (-0.58) 0.2561*** 0.5435*** 0.5551*** 0.3094*** 0.5943*** 0.6706*** (409.04) (62.67) (110.39) (517.94) (72.25) (150.70) 21 Table 6. Morning Regret of Omission and Afternoon Risk Taking (Regret after Reducing Quantity Orders) We present parameter estimates and the corresponding t-statistics by fitting the data with pooled OLS regression. The regression specification takes the form of Equation (1) in Section 2: RISKa = a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 * PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is the measure of risk-taking in the afternoon. We adopt two different measures of risktaking: the number of trades and the number of orders. REGRETm is a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of omission per trader (rREGRETm) which is aggregated all reducing quantity orders of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning. PROFITm is the morning realized profit for each trader. RISKm is the corresponding risk-taking measure in the morning. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Dependent Variable: Riska Number of Trades Indep.Var. Intercept REGRETm PROFITm CROSSm RISKm Number of Orders INDIVs QFIIs DBs INDIVs QFIIs DBs coef -0.0315*** -0.0380 -0.0072 -0.039*** -0.0403 -0.0072 t-stat (-11.53) (-1.18) (-0.74) (-15.32) (-1.43) (-0.86) coef t-stat 0.0068** -0.0019 0.0355*** -0.0089*** -0.0267 -0.0210** (2.29) (-0.06) (3.55) (-3.13) (-0.91) (-2.38) coef t-stat 0.0033 0.0179 0.0373*** 0.0063** -0.0239 0.0187** (1.12) (0.56) (3.79) (2.28) (-0.84) (2.17) coef t-stat coef t-stat -0.0058** (-2.18) 0.0272 (0.78) 0.0087 (1.20) -0.0068*** (-2.68) 0.0038 (0.12) 0.0058 (0.91) 0.2432*** 0.5657*** 0.5218*** 0.3099*** 0.6789*** 0.6714*** (85.16) (17.08) (53.56) (111.70) (23.61) (78.40) 22 Table 7. Morning Regret of Omission and Afternoon Risk Taking (QuantityWeighted Regret after Reducing Quantity Orders) We present parameter estimates and the corresponding t-statistics by fitting the data with pooled OLS regression. The regression specification takes the form of Equation (1) in Section 2: RISKa = a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 * PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is the measure of risk-taking in the afternoon. We adopt two different measures of risktaking: the number of trades and the number of orders. REGRETm is a proxy to measure the degree of quantity-weighted morning regret of omission per trader (rwREGRETm) which is aggregated all quantity-weighted reducing quantity orders of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning. PROFITm is the morning realized profit for each trader. RISKm is the corresponding risk-taking measure in the morning. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Dependent Variable: Riska Number of Trades Indep.Var. Intercept REGRETm PROFITm CROSSm RISKm Number of Orders INDIVs QFIIs DBs INDIVs QFIIs DBs coef -0.0315*** -0.0387 -0.007 -0.0388*** -0.0415 -0.0071 t-stat (-11.52) (-1.21) (-0.72) (-15.23) (-1.47) (-0.84) coef t-stat coef t-stat coef t-stat coef t-stat 0.0178*** (6.01) 0.0123 (0.36) 0.0287*** (2.95) -0.0021 (-0.77) -0.0211 (-0.69) -0.0018 (-0.21) 0.0033 (1.11) 0.0031 (0.10) 0.0393*** (4.02) 0.0063** (2.28) -0.0323 (-1.12) 0.0192** (2.25) -0.0060** (-2.20) -0.1267** (-2.48) 0.0069 (0.80) -0.0059** (-2.30) -0.0610 (-1.34) 0.0025 (0.33) 0.2431*** 0.5704*** 0.5236*** 0.3080*** 0.6792*** 0.6684*** (85.25) (17.35) (53.85) (113.56) (23.65) (78.46) 23 Table 8. Morning Regret of Omission and Afternoon Risk Taking (Regret after Cancel Orders) We present parameter estimates and the corresponding t-statistics by fitting the data with pooled OLS regression. The regression specification takes the form of Equation (1) in Section 2: RISKa = a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 * PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is the measure of risk-taking in the afternoon. We adopt two different measures of risktaking: the number of trades and the number of orders. REGRETm is a proxy to measure the degree of morning regret of omission per trader(cREGRETm) which is aggregated all cancel orders of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning. PROFITm is the morning realized profit for each trader. RISKm is the corresponding risk-taking measure in the morning. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Dependent Variable: Riska Number of Trades Indep.Var. Intercept REGRETm PROFITm CROSSm RISKm Number of Orders INDIVs QFIIs DBs INDIVs QFIIs DBs coef -0.0352*** -0.0302*** -0.0115** -0.0339*** -0.0313*** -0.0121*** t-stat (-41.09) (-3.19) (-2.19) (-42.17) (-3.51) (-2.63) coef t-stat coef t-stat coef t-stat coef t-stat 0.0419*** (48.47) 0.0403*** (4.21) 0.0440*** (8.25) 0.0223*** (26.45) 0.0258*** (2.73) 0.0395*** (7.78) 0.0051*** (5.72) 0.0083 (0.87) 0.0171*** (3.24) 0.0078*** (9.16) -0.0065 (-0.72) 0.0137*** (2.93) 0.0008 (1.30) -0.0095* (-1.84) 0.0078*** (3.94) 0.0018*** (2.99) -0.0145*** (-2.95) 0.0031* (1.75) 0.2809*** 0.5402*** 0.5480*** 0.3333*** 0.5921*** 0.6589*** (328.09) (57.25) (103.01) (398.15) (63.37) (130.20) 24 Table 9. Morning Regret of Omission and Afternoon Risk Taking (QuantityWeighted Regret after Cancel Orders) We present parameter estimates and the corresponding t-statistics by fitting the data with pooled OLS regression. The regression specification takes the form of Equation (1) in Section 2: RISKa = a + b1 * REGRETm + b2 * PROFITm + b3 * REGRETm * PROFITm + b4 * RISKm + e (1) where RISKa is the measure of risk-taking in the afternoon. We adopt two different measures of risktaking: the number of trades and the number of orders. REGRETm is a proxy to measure the degree of quantity-weighted morning regret of omission per trader (cwREGRETm) which is aggregated all quantity-weighted cancel orders of opportunity losses from the same account on the same morning. PROFITm is the morning realized profit for each trader. RISKm is the corresponding risktaking measure in the morning. INDIVs are individual traders, QFIIs are qualified foreign institutional investors, and DBs are dealers or brokers of futures commission merchants. Dependent Variable: Riska Number of Trades Indep.Var. Intercept REGRETm PROFITm CROSSm RISKm Number of Orders INDIVs QFIIs DBs INDIVs QFIIs DBs coef t-stat coef t-stat coef t-stat coef t-stat -0.0348*** (-40.58) -0.0303*** (-3.20) -0.0116** (-2.21) -0.0339*** (-42.16) -0.0317*** (-3.54) -0.0122*** (-2.65) 0.0272*** (30.80) 0.0078 (0.79) 0.0366*** (6.99) 0.0132*** (15.81) 0.0041 (0.44) 0.0282*** (6.06) 0.0054*** (6.04) 0.0040 (0.43) 0.0165*** (3.08) 0.0081*** (9.54) -0.0109 (-1.21) 0.0137*** (2.90) 0.0015** 0.0025 0.0102*** 0.0004 -0.0026 0.0015 (2.22) (0.44) (2.84) (0.58) (-0.48) (0.47) coef t-stat 0.2839*** 0.5467*** 0.5540*** 0.3380*** 0.6002*** 0.6714*** (332.65) (58.86) (106.12) (416.39) (68.03) (144.64) 25
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