An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Financial Trader's Decision-making and Financial Software Applications

摘要

A study is undertaken to unveil the underlying relationship between financial traders' decision-making and their financial trading software applications. A large data set of proprietary financial transactions of 2,726 accounts and 256,674 round-trip transactions that were from November 2004 to January 2012 were examined. Another large survey data set from 178 online traders were also examined. From these substantial data sources, we expect to identify hidden relationships and technological dependencies between the traders' decision-making behaviors and their trading software applications. A preliminary data analysis and results are reported.