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The Characteristics of Investor and Objective of Investment towards<br />

Trading Performance<br />

Suba A/P Balasupramaniam<br />

Supervisor: Dr.Suhal Kusairi<br />

Bachelor of Economic (Natural Resources)<br />

School of Social and Economic Development<br />

The study attempts to investigate the impact of investor’s characteristics and<br />

investment objective towards trading performance. The data sample used in this study<br />

is 150 respondents selected through simple random sampling. Logit and Probit<br />

Analysis was used and found that gender and age variable has a positive impact<br />

towards trading performance but medium of trade like online trading and offline<br />

trading have negative impact towards trading performance.<br />

Jel Code: G11, G12<br />

Keywords: Trading Performance, gender, age, medium of trade, time horizon<br />

1383 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018

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