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Marketpsych LLC offers trainings, coaching, and assessment services for the financial industry. We hold international talks and workshops in the areas of investment psychology and behavioral finance. Additionally, we act as performance coaches for portfolio managers, analysts, traders, and financial executives.
We help our clients improve their financial decision making by identifying their weaknesses and developing their strengths.
A two member management team leads our consulting practices.
 Dr. Peterson is a managing partner of Market Psychology, an experienced investor and consultant, and a physician. At Market Psychology he specializes in individual assessment and coaching and the design and implementation of both investor training programs and market-beating investment strategies. Previously he developed neural network-based market forecasting software and traded stocks, futures, and options for Intelligent Investments Partners.
Dr. Peterson has a Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Arts from the University of Texas. Dr. Peterson has been involved in behavioral finance and neuro-economics research at Stanford University. He has developed financial psychology profiling tools, published in academic journals, and has given presentations to scholars at Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance.
Dr. Peterson has nine years experience in market modeling, invesment strategy development, and trading, and he has privately evaluated and trained investors and traders for the past four years. Current projects include the establishment of a behavioral finance hedge fund.
His research website: Richard L. Peterson, M.D.
 Dr. Murtha is a managing director, consultant, and frequent speaker about behavioral finance. He has consulted for the New York-based consulting firm RHR International Company where he performed corporate and executive evaluations and coaching. His clients there included investment banks, financial services companies, and day trading firms where he has coached portfolio managers in reaching peak performance.
Dr. Murtha received his doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the State University of New York. His dissertation explored the effect of cognitive errors on gambling behavior. He holds a professorship at New York University, teaches a class at Columbia University, and previously lectured at the Smeal College of Business.
Administration at Penn State. Currently, Dr. Murtha is focusing on helping brokers cope with the fallout from recent market volatility - ranging from "analysis paralysis" to panic selling - and to build behaviors that will bring their performance and client relationships into "the optimized zone."
Our consultants have memberships in various industry organizations including:
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