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OK, what platform do you use for trading? Experiences from a Scandinavian viewpoint?

Congrats! Keep it up NYNY, your discipline will be rewarded in the end.

http://www.behaviouralfinance.net http://www.behaviouralfinance.net/papers/ Lots of full-text on the following and else: Loss Aversion Endowment Effect Status Quo Bias Money Illusion Concurrent Decisions Hedonic Editing Self Control cheers

I think putting it street-kid versus phd-quant is quite meaningless. Of course lots of smart people get whipped around by the market, but so do lots of get-rich-quick street-kids never mind their attitude. Lots of guys with shiny degrees also make shitloads of money from salary+bonus+percentage...

Man, thanks for interest. good points. You know of any standardized techniques for avoiding survivorship bias? Segmenting samples into stable parts inbetween changes? Continuous recalculations of some kind? Results of backtesting are also always approximate and directional rather than...

Thanks a lot for kind reply and link. As for sector indexes versus SP etc...Yeah, was something like that I was thinking of, finding leading groups of stocks. Europeean markets are at times very correlated, a friend of mine did a clustering study some time ago, found stable relationships...

Hi all, new in the forum which is Great btw. Starting off with a question. Anyone know of a good rescource (book, article e.g.) discussing the characteristics of stock indexes relative their constituents; - effects of changing components -re-weighting -dependencies on sectors...