Integrative Psychology

A goodybye to Blogger but hello to AndrewIlardi.com

2010-01-11T14:56:00.003-05:00

Recently, I've moved this blog to AndrewIlardi.com. Where I will post information regarding psychology, statistics, the stock market & there ever interchanging relation to one another. You can visit my new blog here for the newest posts from Andrew Ilardi. There are additional pages to peak into the other areas of my work. Check out the new site here.What will happen to this blog?Well I've

A History of Unemployment

2009-12-03T15:08:00.011-05:00

Today I decided to create box plots of the United States Unemployment data dating back to 1948 to the most current month of October 2009. Here are the results... (made using R)If you are new to box plots this website (NetMBA) does an excellent job of explaining it. The abridge version is this: the bolded line is the median, the rest of the lines which create the "box" represent 1st to 3rd

5th Times a Charm?

2009-11-22T20:07:00.007-05:00

Above are the 5 major "Dow Theory" indicators I check for major trends: VIX, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P500, Oil, & NASDAQ. Notice each graph has 3 - 5 major bounces on a single trend line.What's the concern? NASDAQ is the only index who has broken its major trend and and it will now be utilize as resistance. Additionally, oil can not break above $80.00 a barrel. Furthermore, the VIX is

Why Are The Poor So Spend Happy?

2009-11-13T11:45:00.011-05:00

We're in the mist of the mid-day trading session and I can't help but to noticed the amount of advancing stocks. The DOW is up, the S&P 500 is up and NASDAQ is advancing (http://finviz.com/). Normally this correlation doesn't startle me in today's market, however after reading the poor economic numbers that blew past analyst estimates, it does. International Trade smashed through census

Framing Effects on Micro Accounts - Where's your Edge?

2009-08-04T22:22:00.010-04:00

AbstractTrading micro accounts can be an arduous task, but it's my belief that the majority of that demand is psychological. Two factors play the largest role: Inherent resource scarcity notions & framing effects. To abate these effects we can use concrete financial information to combat inherit resource scarcity notions, while using the same information to battle the negative frame. This

Non-state of the Twittersphere

2009-06-12T12:18:00.008-04:00

HubSpot’s State of theTwittersphere report, released Wednesday June 10, produced metrics based on 4.5 million twitter accounts. Arstechnica.com did a great job of summarizing the findings (accurately if I may add), but did not analyze these findings. The State of the Twittersphere report, in my opinion, is plagued by one ill metric which confounds important results. “Active” versus “Inactive”

Synthesizing Psychology & Market Participant Behavior

2009-05-20T09:21:00.003-04:00

Recently I had the pleasure of teaming up with Philip Pearlman to establish a theory involving clinical prescription for irrational market participant behavior, The Cognitive Theory of Noise (CTN). Pearlman is currently an investor in the popular stocktwits.com, a contributor to Jim Cramer's thestreet.com, and a former successful hedge fund manager with 50 million in assets under management.

History as the Mediator of Meta-Analysis

2009-03-24T19:46:00.000-04:00

In regression class I finally understood the difference between mediation & moderation. A significant break through in the way I thought of variables influencing one another. The most interesting thought was the relationship between time & meta-analyses. During a meta analysis we collect as many studies as possible which experimented on or evaluated a particular variable. We then compile

Equity Traders & Attribution Theory

2009-03-16T17:14:00.001-04:00

Attribution theory, according to Wikipedia (which offers a very accurate definition) defines it as "The theory that is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behavior of others or themselves (self-attribution) with something else." Attribution theory was originally pioneered by Fritz Heider in his conjecture that humans operate in amateur scientist ways; mainly that we

Growth is Truely Exponential!

2009-03-11T00:18:00.000-04:00

After being rejected by seven I/O PhD programs & two quantitative psychology programs, needless to say, my spirits were low. I desperately tried to make a case for synthesizing psychology & economics as a course of study in these programs. I tried to explain the relevance and the potential impact it may have upon the field of psychology. My words feel upon deaf ears. A retired professor I

Employees Who Forgot About Themselves.

2008-11-10T00:03:00.000-05:00