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...

It is hard to overstate the importance that the concept of symmetry has had in every field of physics, a fact alluded to by the Nobel Prize winner P.W. Anderson, who once wrote that “physics is the study of symmetry”. Whereas the idea of symmetry is widely used in science in general, very...

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...