When someone says his/her behavior is rational, how could you judge this man/woman is rational in thoughts? Could you believe in what were said? Â ... ...
who can say the exact definition of rationality, constant through time? we should not confuse the madness and irrationality. ıf some one says that...
... I suppose for the foreseeable future will be to distinguish bear market rallys from the true end of the bear market - in my opinion one could only make...
I don't think your staement: "small and medium investors' behavior can converge at a position which results in irrationality" is reasonable in some sense. ... ...
Hello! Seems that groups, societies, crowds, sometimes have their own minds, that not so much agregate than override individual minds and that can bring...
As to the side question, I'm not sure there are really any commonly accepted signals in TA. As anyone who has a passing familiarity with technical analysis...
Dear members, I have prepared a questionnare about cultural and religion effect on risk taking behaviour and send it's web address to the group before. If you...
Hi, dear members and visitors! Here is your 104th month newsletter. 1) Monthly activity The number of (non bouncing) members reached 1840 (-10). One of the...
Hi All I am Hong Kong degree holder student. I am planning the final year project. Do you think "Behavioral Finance Theory-The challenge of EMH according to...
Hello, I am new to the Behavioral Finance group and also a recent graduate from college. I wish to combine my BA in psychology and my minor in finance and...
The following Behavioral-Finance poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Between gambling and financial market do you see (multiples...
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Dear All I'm a new member. I'm from Vietnam. I have participated MBA degree. And now I'm writing Master Thesis in Behavioral Finance. I would like to study in...
<http://www.emii.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2072171> Hedge Fund Banks On Psychology California-based hedge fund manager MarketPsy has launched a quantitative...
Dear All Greetings from Tabassum Sultana I would like to undertake a empirical research work in Behavioral Finance based on which i can conclude whether...
Surely NO one thinks that humans are rational!!!  Look at the state of the world, of power, of people doing things against their best interest---Madoff, or...
Well, I found it interesting to read in something not related to finance or economics behavioral theories and apply the concepts in your research or job. I'm a...
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "whether investors decision making process is rational or not." If you are talking about emperical tests specifically...
Pretty interesting! My first thought though is that it seems like they are trying to predict irrational behavior as the inverse to predicting rational ...
There is a discussion in the paper: "What Moves Stock Prices?," Journal of Portfolio Management, 15(3), Spring 1989, 4-12 (David M. Cutler, James M. Poterba...
I posted a set of research references in the areas of: * <http://tarek.hoteit.org/2008/12/agriculture-commodities-research.html> Agriculture & Commodities ...
Hi, all members! Thanks for your assiduity in 2008. And best personal wishes for you all in 2009! I could add best wishes for the World, But in it present...
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that contrary to conventional wisdom, people do make optimal decisions -- but only when their unconscious...
After reading the article my conclusion was that it's either bad research, a bad article, or both. I can't comment on how good or bad the research is, so...
Hello Most things we do in our life are done on autopilot, if not we would do very few things, we would not even breathe. Seems to me that all those phenomena...
I think rational and intuition need to be expanded as to the professional trader, intuition comes from years of experience of making rational decisions....
The Scientist - Benjamin Libet first demonstrated that the conscious decision to lift your finger is preceded by the motor impulse that lifts the finger. Today...
Thanks for those! The first article was really great, I thought. It more or less shows that news has a surprisingly low correlation to stock market moves. I...
Hello, I think there is a problem with the following reasoning: "A lot of the early work in this field was on conscious decision making, but most of the...
Re: Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible The best decision possible depends upon the decision to be made and the problem confronted and what you...