Human decision making by professionals trading daily in the stock market can be a daunting task. It includes decisions on whether to keep on investing or to exit a market subject to huge price swings, and how to price in news or rumors attributed to a specific stock. The question then arises how...

This study investigates the low-price effect on the Polish stock market. By adopting sorting, cross-sectional tests and checks of the monotonic relation, we have examined the performance of the portfolios formed on the prices of over 850 companies listed on the Polish stock market within the...

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures. Two different levels of this sociological...

The Traditional Approach to Finance -- Behavioral Finance -- Financial Markets as Interacting Individuals: Price Formation From Models of Complexity -- A Psychological Galilean Principle for Price Movements: Fundamental Framework for Technical Analysis -- Catching Animal Spirits: Using...