The mystery of market movements : an archetypal approach to investment forecasting and modeling / Niklas Hageback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hageback, Niklas, author.

Series:

Bloomberg financial series.

Bloomberg Financial Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investment analysis.

Investment analysis--Psychological aspects.

Investments.

Investments--Psychological aspects.

Speculation--Psychological aspects.

Speculation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Archetypal approach to investment forecasting and modeling

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Bloomberg Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A quantifiable framework for unlocking the unconscious forces that shape markets There has long been a notion that subliminal forces play a great part in causing the seemingly irrational financial bubbles, which conventional economic theory, again and again, fails to explain. However, these forces, sometimes labeled 'animal spirits' or 'irrational exuberance, have remained elusive - until now. The Mystery of Market Movements provides you with a methodology to timely predict and profit from changes in human investment behaviour based on the workings of the collective unco

Contents:

The Mystery of Market Movements: An Archetypal Approach to Investment Forecasting and Modeling; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Psychology: A Primer; Some Key Psychological Concepts; The Mind; Consciousness; Instincts, Drives, and Reflexes; The Soul; Free Will; The Unconscious; Early Thinking; Freud's Picture of the Mind; Defense Mechanisms; Freudian Slippage; Current Thinking; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Archetypes and Symbols; Carl Gustav Jung; Jung's Theoretical Framework; The Conscious versus the Unconscious; Archetypes: A Background

The Structure of ArchetypesTypes of Archetypes; Scientific View of Archetypes; Why Do Archetypes Activate?; Compensating for a Single-Sided Conscious Attitude; Compensating for Capacity Issues in the Conscious Part of the Mind; Providing Assistance to a Conscious Not Sufficiently Equipped to Resolve an Emerging and Particular Situation; Release of Psychic Energy; Transcending Function; Seemingly Spontaneous Activation; Symbols: The Tangible Manifestations of Archetypes; Symbols as Expressions; Symbols as Archetypal Proxies; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 3: How Archetypes Influence and Impact BehaviourCharacteristics of the Activation of an Archetype; Projections and Other Defense Mechanisms; The Role of Scapegoats; Shadow Projections; Zeitgeist; Mass Hysteria and Panics; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Archetypal Influences in the Financial Markets; Financial Bubbles; Anatomy of a Financial Bubble; Underlying Causes of a Financial Bubble; Animal Spirits; An Archetypal Perspective on the Development of Financial Bubbles; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 5: Existing Approaches to Capture Sentiments in Financial Markets, and Why They Do Not WorkBehavioural Finance; Technical Analysis; Efficient Market Hypothesis; Black Swans; Social Mood; Emotion Words; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Developing a Conceptual Measurement Methodology Based on Archetypal Forces, Part I: Building Blocks; Linking Symbols to Archetypes; Capturing Symbols; Active Imagination; Dreams; Intuition; Freudian Slips; Metaphors; Myths, Legends, and Sagas; Taboos; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 7: Developing a Conceptual Measurement Methodology Based on Archetypal Forces, Part II: The DataData Sources; Capture and Cleansing; Capturing of Symbol Words; Cleansing of Symbol Words; Relativisation of Symbol Words; Two Article Examples; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 8: Developing a Conceptual Measurement Methodology Based on Archetypal Forces, Part III: The Model; Signal Theory; Correlation Testing; Testing the Time Series against Known Cycles; Constructing Archetypal Composite Indexes; Backtesting and Calibration; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 9: Examples of Archetypal Influences on the Formation of Financial Bubbles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

9781118904541

1118904540

9781118845004

1118845005

9781118844991

1118844998

OCLC:

878149093