• Dr. Mukti Prakashchand Katariya

Extreme volatility has plagued financial markets worldwide since the 2008 Global Crisis. Investors’ sentiment has been one of the key determinants of market movements. In this context, studying the role played by emotions like fear, greed and anticipation which shape investment decisions seem important. Behavioral finance is an evolving field that studies how psychological factors affect decision making under uncertainty. This research paper seeks to find the influence of certain identified behavioral biases: overconfidence, representativeness, herding, anchoring, cognitive dissonance, regret aversion, gamblers’ fallacy, mental accounting, hindsight bias, loss averseness, risk tolerance, irrational thinking on the decision- making process of individual investors in the Indian stock market. Recent studies on the behavior of individual investors’ have shown that investors do not act in a rational manner. Several behavioral factors influence investment decisions of investors. For the study purpose, 300 investors from Jalgaon district belong from different strata are considered. Questionnaire based on different bias which affect on investment decision; action taken by investors at time market boom and crash is prepared

Behavioral bias, investors’ decision, risk tolerance, market crash and boom.

"Investors’ Sentiment, Financial Stress and Stock Market Volatility.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.320-332, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907F43.pdf

"Investors’ Sentiment, Financial Stress and Stock Market Volatility.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp320-332, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907F43.pdf