Who do you think is a big thinker in finance (ideas, tools, strategies)?

Do Day Traders Rationally Learn About Their Ability? with Brad Barber, Yi-Tsung Lee and Yu-Jane Liu. The Cross-Section of Speculator Skill: Evidence from Taiwan with Brad Barber, Yi-Tsung Lee and Yu-Jane Liu. Once Burned, Twice Shy: How Naïve Learning, Counterfactuals, and Regret Affect the Repurchase of Stocks Previously Sold with Brad Barber and Michal Strahilevitz, forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research.

Author of the Aleph Blog:
David J. Merkel, CFA — 2010-present, I run my own equity asset management shop, called Aleph Investments. I manage separately managed stock and bond accounts for upper middle class individuals and small institutions. My minimum is $100,000

JasonZweig.com seeks to help investors maximize the odds of reaching their goals. This site preaches the virtues of investing patience and condemns bad logic and bad behavior.

Inside the Investor's Brain (Wiley, 2007) MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity (Wiley, 2010) Neuroeconomics Post-Doctoral Studies - Stanford University, 2003-2004. Psychiatry Residency - San Mateo Medical Center, 2000-2004. M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) - University of Texas Medical Branch, May 2000, with Honors. B.S.

Legg Mason's Chief Investment Officer and author of investment books

Of best-selling Nudge fame.

Tom Brakke, CFA, is president of thomas j. brakke, llc, and its affiliated entities, including tjb research, a consulting firm specializing in helping investment firms in the areas of investment process, the use of external research, and the communication of investment ideas within a firm and to its clients.

I get a ton of emails with ideas and questions about trading systems. We put together a research piece that answers a lot of these questions and will likely publish it in the coming weeks on the blog or in a white paper.

Shlomo Benartzi, and Richard H. Thaler. (Summer 2007). Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior. Journal of Economic Perspectives. [ Link ] Shlomo Benartzi, and Richard H. Thaler. (February 2004). Save More Tomorrow: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Savings. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112.1, Part 2, pp. S164-S187.

Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University and Visiting Professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on behavioral finance. He attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets. Meir's book, "What Investors Really Want," has recently been published by McGraw-Hill. The book's subtitles are "Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Better Financial Decisions," and "Learn the Lessons of Behavioral Finance."