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  • Chapter 25 - Trading on Social Trading Platforms

  • from Part IV - Digital Technologies and the Future of Financial Infrastructure
  • Edited by Carola Westermeier, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, University of Groningen, Barbara Brandl, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
    Published online:
    21 May 2025
    Print publication:
    05 June 2025, pp 309-321
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    Social trading platforms (STPs), as forms of trading infrastructures, provide retail traders with easy access to online trading. The social features and their impacts that are enabled by STPs, however, are largely underexamined in the literature on financial infrastructures. This chapter examines the impact of sociability on retail trader behavior in the context of STPs. It focuses on three aspects of the potential influences of the interactions among foreign exchange retail traders. The first aspect is the relationship between sociability and trader financial performance. The second aspect is the relationship between sociability and investor survivorship. The third aspect is the relationship between sociability and the wisdom of crowds. It argues that future research could be done in these areas to strengthen the understanding of the impact of sociability on financial decision-making.