| Daily Trading Indicators |
- The Sunshine Index. Researchers have found a correlation between the amount of sunshine in New York City and daily stock market returns. This daily-updated graph is a 3-day forecast of the level of sunshine in New York City and the major financial centers that affect U.S. markets.
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| Trading Psychology |
- Gain a Trading Edge. Learn about the optimal personality traits and state of mind for trading successfully in the markets. This is a summary of academic research through June, 2005.
- Tips from Neurofinance. Learn how new discoveries in neuroscience can help you make better investment decisions, and get to the bottom of your own Greed and Fear.
- Investing in China. This webpage consists of links to many financial resources about China. This site can assist investors in finding and buying shares of little-known but fast-growing Chinese companies. Do your due diligence before investing in Chinese shares.
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| Scholarly Work |
- Neuroscience and Investing: fMRI of the Brain's Reward System
This paper has been published by Brain Research Bulletin. It outlines how neuroimaging research on the brain's reward system can improve investor psychology and inform investment strategy.
- "Buy on the Rumor:" Anticipatory Affect and Investor Behavior
Dr. Peterson's market modeling research in the Journal of Psychology and Markets, v3, n4, 2002. Describes the psychology underlying the "Buy on the rumor and sell on the news" price pattern. Presents a trading strategy for exploiting this anomaly.
- The Trading Athlete (book review) This book review by Dr. Peterson examines various approaches to trading psychology and performance enhancement. Appeared in the Journal of Behavioral Finance, v4, n2, 2003.
- Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The science of neuroeconomics (book review) This book review by Dr. Peterson provides an overview of Paul Glimcher's excellent book on neuroeconomics and neural decision making. In press for the Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2003.
- Demystifying the Markets with Neuroscience This brief article outlines recent findings in neuroeconomics research. Both irrational investor decision making and market price anomalies may be partially understood with a basic understanding of brain functioning.
- Investing Lessons from Neuroscience: the brain's reward system The brain's reward system assesses potential rewards and motivates reward pursuit behavior. Certain aspects of information about potential rewards asymmetrically activates the brain and motivates our investing behavior.
- 9 Inning Series: sports psychology for the online trading athlete This is a series written by Doug Hirschhorn, a sports psychology PhD student and former trader, and Shane Murphy. The authors invite the reader to implement a sports psychology approach to their trading decisions. Doug currently coaches nationally-known traders, investors, and athletes.
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| Neuroeconomics Resources |
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| Latest academic review of behavioral finance |
- http://papers.nber.org/papers/W9222 This is an excellent and up-to-date review of the behavioral finance literature by one of the pioneers of behavioral finance, Professor Richard Thaler
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| Websites of Interest |
- Market Semiotics. Renowned newsletter author, money manager, and market forecaster Woody Dorsey utilizes principles of behavioral finance in his proprietary trading systems.
- Finanza Comportamentale - A multilingual (primarily Italian) site that organizes and presents a large amount of behavioral finance-related resources, including risk profiling and investor risk perception tools.
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| Trading Coaches |
- View a list of trading coaches and psychologists here
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