• Noise traders trade on signals that they believe generate higher profits than random profits, however, this belief is not well substantiated.

  • The idea of the noise trader came from the notion that price action has “noise” that is not related to a reliable analysis signal about the price of a security.
  • Such perceptions have led to the controversial and overly simplistic notion that fundamental analysis is the true signal and technical analysis is just noise.
  • The best consideration for identifying noise trading is to understand the concept of the noise trader’s agenda.