What Moves the Stocks?

Mainstream media often associates stock market ups and downs based on news and events. Often people think that the markets are rational and investors are believed to react to the news around them.

We have a different opinion:

Contrasting Models of Finance
Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)

    1 Objective, conscious, rational decisions to maximize utility determine financial values. 2. Financial markets tend toward equilibrium and revert to the mean. 3. Investors in financial markets typically use information to reason. 4. Investors’ decisions are based on knowledge and certainty.
    5. Exogenous variables determine most investment decisions.
    6. Financial prices derive from individual decisions about value.
    7. Financial prices are random.
    8. Financial prices are unpredictable.
    9. Changing events presage changes in the values of associated financial instruments.
    10. Economic principles govern finance.

Socionomic Theory of Finance (STF)

    1. Subjective, unconscious, pre-rational impulses to herd determine financial values.
    2. Financial markets are dynamic and do not revert to anything. 3. Investors in financial markets typically use information to rationalize emotional imperatives.
    4. Investors’ decisions are fraught with ignorance and uncertainty. 5. Endogenous social processes determine most investment decisions.
    6. Financial prices derive from trends in social mood.
    7. Financial prices adhere to an organizing principle at the aggregate level.
    8. Financial prices are probabilistically predictable.
    9. Changing values of financial instruments presage changes in associated events.
    10. Socionomic principles govern finance.

Explained in this eye opening presentation in IFTA London – by Robert R Prechter – Socionomic Theory: An Alternative to EMH & a Foundation for TA

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