ZodiacAnalyst: Time based forecasting software
ZodiacAnalyst is the platform created to study the various social, cognitive and emotional factors, that affect and change the behavior of the traders and speculators.
Events & Responses get stored in TIME memory, and that’s why history repeats. Human Brain, mostly prefers and uses the common sense (thumb rules), known methods to act or react, since it is more comfortable and reduces the risk of getting singled out.
Using the experience and the pressure to react or response quickly, which make the Brain more comfortable, forces the trapped trader or speculator, to act which has been taken thousand times by others, which might not be the logical, yet it is supported by history and that gives the emotional support of not being the first fool, which heals the impact.
Behavior finance & response mechanism is extensively studied and given very high weightage in the global markets especially by the very large players. Insurers, vulture & Black swan funds spend millions in plotting behavior probabilities, and identifying alteration in the behavior patterns. Behavior finance in equities is directly visible in trading patterns, and price movements. Quantitative behavioral finance uses scientific methodologies to understand behavioral biases in decision making of individuals and people managing large funds, bigger the fund bigger is the impact. In the age of technology, regulated & Systematic structure of the markets, wide movements have significantly shrunk and yet the probabilities of 10% or more single day plunge in the markets cannot be ruled out. An event can wipe out years of accumulated gains in one or two trading sessions. It is quite regular event in individual stocks and commodities, and it keeps happening in different markets once in a decade in the different markets. ZodiacAnalyst has the capability of throwing up such opportunities towards user, though it needs practice and regular observation.
