This short note examines common failures of individual equity investors via the metaphor of the 7 deadly sins of Christian theology. The note appeared in 7 parts in the Sunday Independent, the largest selling newspaper in Ireland, in the April-May 2006 period

This paper surveys the research on the influence of investor feelings on equity pricing, and also develops a theoretical basis with which to understand the emerging findings of this area. The theoretical basis is developed by reference to research in the fields of economic psychology and...

We investigate whether there exists a relationship between eight proxy variables for investor mood (based on the weather, biorhythms, and beliefs) and daily Irish stock returns over the period 1988 to 2001. Our study is motivated by recent research which argues that people's decisions are...

This paper surveys the research on the influence of investor feelings on equity pricing, and also develops a theoretical basis with which to understand the emerging findings of this area. The theoretical basis is developed by reference to research in the fields of economic psychology and...

We investigate the relationship between mood and UK equity pricing. Seven variables that are argued to proxy for mood are tested, including four weather variables (temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and geomagnetic storms), and three biorhythm variables (Seasonal Affective Disorder,...

Recent research in behavioural finance has tested for evidence of mood misattribution influencing investor decision-making. The approach adopted is to test for a relationship between widely experienced mood proxy variables and equity returns. Variables ranging from weather, to Seasonal Affective...

We investigate whether there exists a relationship between eight proxy variables for investor mood (based on the weather, biorhythms, and beliefs) and daily Irish stock returns over the period 1988 to 2001. Our study is motivated by recent research which argues that people's decisions are...

Recent research has identified the presence of behavioral influences on traders in predominantly professionally traded markets such as oil, gold, and foreign exchange. Previous research had largely confined behavioral-based investigations to equity markets due to an assumption that noise traders...

We find evidence for price clustering in both oil and coal price data. We further find that there is significant evidence that these clusterings represent psychological barriers, and that these affect both the level and the volatility of prices around these barriers.