Abstract
A stock market model is conceived within which investors are qualified by bounded rationality, asymmetric behaviour, and restricted availability of money. The stock market is represented through a second order nonlinear model which is continuous in time. Attention is attached to the bifurcations that arise when a financially meaningful parameter is suitably varied. In this way a range of asymptotic behaviours is detected. As one would expect, an excess in traders with low rationality results in an unstable market.