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Table 1 Summary statistics

From: Does communication increase investors’ trading frequency? Evidence from a Chinese social trading platform

 

Obs

Mean

Std. dev.

P25

P50

P75

Trades

1,133,050

0.5432

0.8610

0.0000

0.0000

1.0986

Turnover

1,133,050

0.3996

1.1107

0.0000

0.0000

0.1838

\(Leader\ comment\)

689,206

0.6005

0.4898

0.0000

1.0000

1.0000

\(Leader\ count\)

413,890

1.6229

1.5679

0.4380

1.7243

2.7839

\(Leader\ positive\)

413,890

0.0561

0.0274

0.0488

0.0582

0.0656

\(Leader\ negative\)

413,890

0.0837

0.0355

0.0766

0.0885

0.0973

Return

1,133,050

− 0.0009

0.0391

− 0.0118

0.0000

0.0119

\(Return\ SD\)

1,133,050

0.0122

0.0405

0.0000

0.0090

0.0168

No.securities

1,133,050

1.9752

1.1127

1.0986

1.9459

2.8332

No.followers

1,133,050

0.2087

0.5431

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

\(Portfolio\ age\)

1,133,050

3.8752

1.0102

3.4012

4.1431

4.6250

No.leaders

1,133,050

0.9335

0.9629

0.0000

0.6931

1.6094

\(Leader\ return\)

689,206

0.0010

0.0331

− 0.0127

0.0008

0.0169

\(Leader\ SD\)

689,206

0.0133

0.0142

0.0070

0.0114

0.0173

\(Leader\ trades\)

689,206

0.2858

0.4820

0.0000

0.0000

0.3973

\(Leader\ securities\)

689,206

1.7122

1.0548

0.8959

1.6094

2.3026

\(Leader\ followers\)

689,206

2.6001

1.8436

0.8100

2.3620

3.8202

\(Leader\ age\)

689,206

3.9980

1.1266

3.5264

4.3041

4.7769

  1. This table presents the summary statistics of variables for real-account portfolios, including the number of observations (Obs), mean (Mean), standard deviation (Std. Dev.), the first quartile (P25), median (P50), and the third quartile (P75) of the variables