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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817899103321

Autore

Elvin Mike

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-280-27507-3

9786610275076

0-470-02072-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Wiley trading series

Disciplina

332.6/01/9

Soggetti

Stocks - Psychological aspects

Speculation - Psychological aspects

Investments - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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?

Sommario/riassunto

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