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Subprime continues to Haunt Wall Street.

Best to step aside and let the market follow-through before you test the waters.
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Are markets really that efficient?

Market efficiency advocates would tell you yes they are efficent.  They hypothesis states:  market prices always fully reflect all available, relevant information.  Adherents believe that the adjustment to new information is virtually instantaneous and its is virtually impossible to beat the market (definition by Bloomberg).  It is true that 75% of money managers fail to […]

Wikipedia - Behavioral Finance

Behavioral finance and behavioral economics are closely related fields which apply scientific research on human and social cognitive and emotional biases to better understand economic decisions and how they affect market prices, returns and the allocation of resources. The fields are primarily concerned with the rationality, or lack thereof, of economic agents. Behavioral models typically […]

Psychology - Behavioral Finance

Just came across a wonderful research article from Stanford University.  Here is a glimpse of it:
Where Stock Market Psychology and Pricing Intersect
by:  Harrison G. Hong & Ming Huang
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — At the zenith of the dot-com craze when Palm Inc. spun off from parent 3Com Corp., its March 2, 2000, IPO touched off a […]

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