Financial risk taking : an introduction to the psychology of trading and behavioural finance / Mike Elvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elvin, Mike.

Series:

Wiley trading series.

Wiley trading series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stocks--Psychological aspects.

Stocks.

Speculation--Psychological aspects.

Speculation.

Investments--Psychological aspects.

Investments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy princip

Contents:

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Understanding trading competence

A comprehensive model of trading competence

Taming stress to become a better trader

The psychology of perceptual bias

Emotions, emotional intelligence, and trading

Martial arts and Budo Zen : controlling fear and self-sabotage

Trading standards and criteria : have you passed your MOT?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786610275076

9781280275074

1280275073

9780470020722

0470020725

OCLC:

560025704