Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Volume 8 Issue 2

Information sources and trading behavior: does investor personality matter?

Muhammad Zubair Tauni, Hong Xing Fang, Amjad Iqbal

This paper aims to investigate the impact of sources of information on trading behavior by analyzing the influence of investor personality in Chinese futures market.

Trust in online futures market: a study of Malaysia

Maryam Eslami, Eboshogwe Imomoh

Nowadays with the rapid growth of futures market, trust issues are increasing, especially, for individual traders because of the existing risks. However, to date there is no study…

Kenneth Fisher’s heuristics: An account of Kenneth Fisher’s framework to reason the innovation of investing tools and invest by knowing what others don’t

Carlo Massironi, Giusy Chesini

The authors are interested in building descriptive – real life – models of successful investors’ investment reasoning and decision-making. Models designed to be useful for trying…

Private investor extrapolation bias – evidence through qualitative content analysis (QCA)

Albert Rapp

This paper aims to address the importance of behavioural finance issues among real investors. It analyses whether private investors are susceptible to extrapolation bias and…

Shari’ah issues, challenges, and prospects for Islamic derivatives: a qualitative study

Muhammad Rizky Prima Sakti, Ahmad Syahid, Mohammad Ali Tareq, Akbariah Mohd Mahdzir

The purpose of this study is to investigate shari’ah scholars’ views and experiences pertaining the shari’ah issues, challenges and prospects in Islamic derivatives. Specifically…