Emotions and the financial behaviour of professionals.

I gave this talk at the launch of Essentia Analytics, an innovative firm developing software to help fund managers track and improve their susceptibility to behavioural biases. http://youtu.be/o5hwI1f06ao

Emotions and financial trading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LnsfdCIHlA Mark Fenton-O'Creevy and David Jones of IG Index discuss emotions and trading at the London Stock Exchange

Welcome to the emotional finance blog

Money fractures marriages, drives wars, inspires art, motivates some people to great achievements, leads others to despair. Fear, desire, love, hate, jealousy, anger, anxiety, relief, shame and many more shades of emotion may attach to money in the course of an ordinary day. (Photo credit: @Doug88888)Yet, economic accounts of human financial behaviour focus on reasoned… Continue reading Welcome to the emotional finance blog