“Company X attacked by ransomware, hackers demand Y million USD”. A headline that is pretty common these days. And for those working in large cap companies the response on the work floor is pretty similar, suddenly the IT departments main focus is cyber security. This tells us something behavioural economists…

An AI model that enhances human intuition instead of replacing it — Alternative data and Machine Learning are gaining rapid traction in the investment industry. However AI and Machine learning still is not able to beat the market or most regular investors in a real life environment, even though the internet is full of articles predicting stock prices with 99% accuracy (overfitting…

In a previous article I explained how behavioural flaws leads to predictive behaviour of investors and how to measure that. This lead to an innovative stock market indicator. In this article we will dig one level deeper and look at how sentiment can be used to get insight in niches…

Did you ever notice that you are more cautious in traffic after there has been a large accident in the news? Then you are aware that sometimes the human brain takes shortcuts that behavioural economists call heuristics. Additionally, you are probably aware that alternative (big) data is giving rise to…