20/20 Money See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

, by Hanson, Michael

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ISBN: 9780470285398 | 0470285397
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/26/2009

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To truly outperform today's markets, you need to see the investment landscape clearly. 20/20 Money-the latest title from Fisher Investments Press-can help you achieve this goal.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Investing is a Science	p. 1
Apollo's Arrow Shot Crooked	p. 2
Dionysus-More than Just a Good Vintner	p. 3
Use the Method, Not the Dogma	p. 5
Careful with Categories	p. 13
Could Math be Wrong?	p. 15
Reduction: Why you Can't Quantify Everything	p. 19
Investing is a Discipline	p. 27
Discipline, Discipline, Discipline	p. 29
Sagacity: Seeing isn't Believing	p. 41
Understanding and Being Curious	p. 48
Human Behavior	p. 51
Brain Basics	p. 53
Brains on the Market	p. 64
My, What a Terrible Memory you Have!	p. 71
Bad Behavioral Finance	p. 76
Behavioral Miscellany	p. 79
Sentiment and the Media	p. 83
Sentiment Basics	p. 85
News and the Media	p. 90
What's their Motive?	p. 98
Tips and Tricks to Navigate the Media	p. 100
Metaphors we Invest by	p. 106
How Stock Markets Really Work	p. 113
Capitalism by Any Other Name	p. 114
It's Complicated ... A Crash Course in CEAS	p. 118
The New Golden Rule	p. 130
Oldest and Still the Best: Supply and Demand	p. 139
Forecasting, Part1-The Principle of Probability	p. 147
Forecasting is Strange Alchemy	p. 148
Types of Predictions	p. 150
Probability Theory, or How Markets are Nothing Like Coin Tosses	p. 154
The Biggest Problem of them All	p. 163
Investing Lessons from Probability	p. 165
Looking Ahead ...	p. 170
Forecasting, Part2-Recognizing Patterns	p. 173
A Pattern by any Other Name	p. 174
Stock Market Patterns	p. 175
Patterns Through the Noise	p. 179
It's a Game of Relative Expectations	p. 181
Back to the Future: Using History to Find Patterns	p. 187
Three Big Drivers	p. 191
An Optimistic Note on Future Patterns	p. 195
Practical Portfolio Management	p. 197
The Virtues of Heuristics	p. 198
Goal Setting	p. 199
Personal Goals	p. 201
Portfolio Goals	p. 205
The Top-Down Philosophy	p. 210
Miscellaneous Heuristics	p. 223
The Nature of Risk and Navigating Markets in Troubled Times	p. 229
Risk and Uncertainty	p. 231
Financial Risk, or What Happens When you Assume	p. 233
In Troubled Times	p. 239
Parting Thoughts	p. 253
Notes	p. 255
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading	p. 259
About the Author	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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20/20 Money See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

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