Inside the investor's brain : the power of mind over money /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
c2007
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| Series: | Wiley trading series
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
- Introduction
- Foundations: the intersection of mind and money
- Markets on the mind: the challenge of finding an edge
- Brain basics: the building blocks
- Origins of mind: expectations, beliefs, and meaning
- Neurochemistry: this is your brain on drugs
- Feelings and finances
- Intuition: the power of listening to your gut
- Money emotions: clouding judgment
- Joy, hope, and greed: hooked on a feeling
- Overconfidence and hubris: too much of a good thing
- Anxiety, fear, and nervousness: how not to panic
- Stress and burn-out: short term pleasure, long term pain
- Love of risk: are you trading or gambling?
- Personality factors: what are great investors like?
- Thinking about money
- Making decisions: the effects of probability, ambiguity, and trust
- Framing your options: seeing the world in black and white
- Loss aversion: cutting losers short and letting winners run
- Time discounting: why we eat dessert first
- Herding: keeping up with the Jones?
- Charting and data mining: reading tea leaves
- Attention and memory: what's in a name?
- Age, sex, and culture: risk-taking around the world
- In practice
- Emotion management: a balancing act
- Change techniques: going deep
- Behavioral finance investing: playing the players
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index