Behavioral finance we can all use - forex trading systems revealed

Behavioral finance we can all use ~ forex trading systems revealed

In their new book "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness", U of Chicago economist Richard Thaler (of behavioral finance fame) and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein gave a few pieces of personal finance advice, one of which coincided with my point in a previous post: buy insurance with the largest deductible available. The others are: dont invest much in your employers stock, dont pay points on mortages, and dont pay for extended warranties. The book is reviewed in the NYT Book Review.
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Conference on the sociology of quantitative finance - forex trading trend strategy

Conference on the sociology of quantitative finance ~ forex trading trend strategy

A new conference called Psi-Q will be held in London this June, featuring luminaries in the academic quantitative finance world, as well as risk and fund managers from various banks and hedge funds. Example topics:

• How did shared beliefs, practices, ways of calculating, and technical systems impact evaluation of asset-backed securities and CDOs before and during the credit crises?
• Was that Lucky or Good? Creating a framework for skill attribution in finance, business management and other risky endeavors.
• The “backing out” phenomena observed in options markets:  how traders use models to imply independent variables consistent with market observed pricing, and where enough traders can be wrong about the expected results and the backed-out positions can send the wrong message.

Sounds like an interesting birds eye view of quantitative finance.

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