Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business
Vol 17, No 1 (2015): January-April

Trading Behavior of Foreign Vis a Vis Local Investors in The Indonesian Stock Market

Rahardjo, Soemarso Slamet ( Faculty of Economics at University of Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Apr 2015

Abstract

This paper studies the behavior of foreign, local investors and total market in a stock trading. The analysis is focused on their implementation of positive feedback strategy, the existence of mean reverting process and their sensitivity toward expected capital gain and losses. The result reveals that both of these two investors apply the positive feedback strategy, at a different degree. The investment horizon of the foreign investors is shorter than the local investors. There is a mean reverting pattern in the price volatilities. The convergence period for local investor is 2.4. The market needs 1.8 month. No convergence period for foreign investors. The local investors and total market are neutral toward expected gain and losses. The foreign investors are more sensitive to capital loss. Previous price and volume changes have a leverage effect to the current demand of foreign investors. The local investors are affected by changes in price only.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

GAMAIJB

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business (GamaIJB) is a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year (January-April, May-August, and September-December) by Master of Management Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada. GamaIJB is intended to be the journal for ...