STUDY ON INVESTOR’S PERFORMANCE AND BEHAVIOR IN STOCK MARKET IN CHENNAI CITY

Stock market forecast has continuously caught the attention of many forecasters and researchers. Some of the theories commend that stock markets are really a random walk and it is a fool’s game to attempt and forecast them. Forecasting stock prices is a challenging problem in itself because of the number of variables which are involved. Market also performs like a voting tool but in the longer term, it acts like a weighing instrument and hence there is scope for guessing the market actions for a longer timeframe. Application of mechanism learning techniques and other procedures for stock price analysis and anticipating is an area that shows great promise. In this paper, we first provide a concise review of stock markets and then focus on some of the research achievements in stock analysis and prediction