The Santa Claus Rally Penny For Your Thoughts by Bangor Business School

In our very first Penny for Your Thoughts podcast Dr Steffan Thomas interviews Dr Heather He, Lecturer in Data Science/ Data Analytics at Bangor Business School. Dr Heather will be bringing some festive cheer, and rational thinking into what is known as ‘The Santa Claus Rally’. What is this phenomenon and how do we understand it through Behavioural Finance? Dr He has extensive research experience of individual trading behaviour and performance analysis in equity, forex exchange and cryptocurrency markets, as well as expertise in behavioural risk-taking and decision-making - prospect theory, individual behavioural biases, and decision theories.