Starting to study Behavioral Finance? Preparing a BF thesis? IMO, the perfect starting point is Martin Sewell's BF introduction. It sums up, in an easily...
Hello Dear Friends, I was wondering if some of you could throw some light on the issue of individual investor psychology from the pespective of retail...
Interesting question, Shalini. From the financial marketing point of view, investors can certainly be sorted in "behavioral segments", with an adequate...
I'm trying to see if there is any interest in applying scientific method to trading systems development by comparing predictive software and architectures in a...
Do you think that Bank of England underestimated the negative impact of consumer behaviour in the case of Northern Rock? I have just returned from a workshop...
Hello Shalini, A new book was recently published that is directed at the retail investor: Your Money & Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can...
hello Thanks Peter, Servass, and Neil, your inputs are very insightful..I will go through the relevant articles and ponder over this further. what i still am...
For retail investors, here's a simple buy-and-hold portfolio, that involves no trading, no commissions and no margin. Although we've continuously recommended...
Hello Bob thanks for ur inputs... tell me something... when an investment house interacts with the retail investors, what type of understanding they gather...
That depends on the type of "investment house," Shalini, but in general, there are broker-dealers, investment management firms, and financial planners. Each...
thanks Bob, you have touched an interesting topic... as u have mentioned that the investment firms, financial planners take into account the variety of...
I believe clients are better served if classical cognitive biases are explained and personally relevant ones are discussed and monitored. It's similar to the...
Well, when I did professional financial planning, I tried to explain risks and told clients that they generally would be buying a variety of funds and holding...
Dear Shalini, You can contact Prof. Pitabas Mohanty, Faculty (Finance) of XLRI, Jamshedpur. An interesting execise was conducted by him, along with his...
Hi , A question first: Is the reatil "investor" really a investor or a mere trader? I have been observing the markets trends for a very litle period only. With...
Hi Ashwani, you are very correct when u say that a mix set of factors influence the decision making of an investor. These factors to my little knowledge,...
Hi. In brief, the conventional wisdom (and I hope the math behind it) agrees with you and says that "buy and hold" will make your richer--than day trading,...
Hi, I believe the math actually says that trading can make you much much richer than a buy and hold. This is based on the assumption that your research behind...
I think that we regular people ALWAYS compete with the big banks, pension funds, etc...as they have the money and shares. Note that when a fund gets cash, it...
Hi, dear members and visitors! Hoping you didn't wait too long at your doorstep watching for the mailperson, here is your 90th month newsletter ;-) 1) Monthly...
Several common fallacies may be worth exploring here. First, it's just not true that the small investor can't compete with the big boys. The one with the MOST...
Does any listmember have TradeStation 2000i & a crack ? Have loads of books to exchange. thanks John ... Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their...
Does anyone know of studies addressing the effects of the internet on investors' susceptibility to psychological forces? Cheap online commissions, the ability...
Neil, The Internet and the Investor Brad M. Barber; Terrance Odean The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Winter, 2001), pp. 41-54. From:...
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