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Title: The Psychology of Investing by Lawrence E. Lifson, Richard A. Geist ISBN: 0-471-18339-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 05 March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Lack of focus, insight nor solution. Not helpful at all.
Comment: Bascially this book is a collection of eleven chapters contributed by eleven authors, professors...but not serious fund managers or traders, with highly diversified investment and writing skills.
Personally I have no bias towards any profession. However, I have the perception accumulated from my past reading experience that non trader authors are quite inclined to put their emphasis on elaborating their theories to describe what happened, providing elegant data (weakly applicable here) to support their arguments, but doing little on solving nor advising on the problems, and thus failing to satisfy the primary objective of most readers in buying an investment or trading book. This book just reinforced my perception in this respect.
There are many much better trading psychology books in the market like Trader Vic I, Investment Quotient, Trading in the Zone blah blah blah. (Please see my other reviews). I am sure that you will have a much higher return for your investment on them.
Rating: 3
Summary: Misses the Mark
Comment: The chapters of this book are based on seminars given by various psychology and investment professionals and educators. Although at first this might seem confusing, the content is well presented and flows in a smooth and understandable manner. However, my complaint is that I found the content of this book to focus too much on general psychology rather than the dynamics of an investor's mind. There are far better investment psychology books available, notably books by Martin Pring. I have always found Pring's works to be focused and highly educational.
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Title: Investment Madness: How Psychology Affects Your Investing...And What To Do About It by John R. Nofsinger ISBN: 0130422002 Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 21 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay ISBN: 051788433X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 25 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain by Ned Davis ISBN: 007143240X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Psychology of Smart Investing : Meeting the 6 Mental Challenges by Ira Epstein, David Garfield ISBN: 047155071X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen ISBN: 0684864436 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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