Winning the Mental Game on Wall Street
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Winning the Mental Game on Wall Street

The Psychology and Philosophy of Successful Investing

  1. 459 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Winning the Mental Game on Wall Street

The Psychology and Philosophy of Successful Investing

About this book

This book is the new edition of John Magee's classic General Semantics of Wall Street.
An indispensable companion to John Magee's and Robert Edward's classic, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, Winning the Mental Game on Wall Street covers the mind set, the preconceptions, the false and misleading habits that hinder peak performance. It exhaust

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780910944175
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781420033090
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Finance
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. FOREWORD
  7. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER 2: THE BIG GAME
  9. CHAPTER 3: BLACK MAGIC
  10. CHAPTER 4: THE VILLAIN
  11. CHAPTER 5: THE BLIND
  12. CHAPTER 6: OUT OF THE DARKNESS
  13. CHAPTER 7: THE CAMERA
  14. CHAPTER 8: THE PRIMARY RECEPTORS
  15. CHAPTER 9: A STARTING POINT
  16. CHAPTER 10: ONE-TO-ONE
  17. CHAPTER 11: OF MAPS
  18. CHAPTER 12: DATING THE MAP
  19. CHAPTER 13: BRINGING DATA UP-TO-DATE
  20. CHAPTER 14: THE 26 LEAD SOLDIERS
  21. CHAPTER 15: MAPS OF MAPS
  22. CHAPTER 16: THE PIGEONHOLES
  23. CHAPTER 17: THE LABELS
  24. CHAPTER 18: NOT QUITE THE SAME
  25. CHAPTER 19: UP AND DOWN THE LADDER
  26. CHAPTER 20: SIMILARITIESā€”AND DIFFERENCES
  27. CHAPTER 21: BEYOND THE WORLD OF THINGS
  28. CHAPTER 22: THE MEANINGS WE ATTACH TO MAPS
  29. CHAPTER 23: MAPS WITHOUT TERRITORIES
  30. CHAPTER 24: AN EXCEEDINGLY COMPLEX MACHINE
  31. CHAPTER 25: LAYERS OF AWARENESS
  32. CHAPTER 26: TIME BINDING
  33. CHAPTER 27: STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
  34. CHAPTER 28: CONTRADICTIONS
  35. CHAPTER 29: LETā€™S NOT BE TOO ANTHROPOCENTRIC
  36. CHAPTER 30: SANITY MUST BE ACHIEVED
  37. CHAPTER 31: THE THINKING PROCESS
  38. CHAPTER 32: THE VAGUENESS OF THE HIGH ABSTRACTIONS
  39. CHAPTER 33: ā€œTO MEā€
  40. CHAPTER 34: EITHER/OR
  41. CHAPTER 35: THE DANGEROUS NATURE OF DICHOTOMY
  42. CHAPTER 36: THREE-VALUED ORIENTATIONS
  43. CHAPTER 37: MULTI-VALUED SYSTEMS
  44. CHAPTER 38: INFINITE-VALUED SYSTEMS
  45. CHAPTER 39: THE GREEKS HAD A PHRASE FOR IT
  46. CHAPTER 40: IMPERFECT INFORMATION
  47. CHAPTER 41: WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH?
  48. CHAPTER 42: PROFITS CAN BE PAINFUL, TOO
  49. CHAPTER 43: PREDICTING THE FUTURE
  50. CHAPTER 44: THE METHOD OF PREDICTION
  51. CHAPTER 45: HUNTING
  52. CHAPTER 46: POSITIVE FEEDBACK
  53. CHAPTER 47: WHAT IS ā€œVALUEā€?
  54. CHAPTER 48: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
  55. CHAPTER 49: TWO PRACTICAL QUESTIONS FOR EVERYDAY USE
  56. CHAPTER 50: BALDERDASH, UNLIMITED
  57. CHAPTER 51: WE CANā€™T GET IT ALL
  58. CHAPTER 52: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
  59. CHAPTER 53: INTERLUDE
  60. CHAPTER 54: DATED DATA
  61. CHAPTER 55: ā€œBUY GOOD, SOUND STOCKSā€
  62. CHAPTER 56: ā€œIā€™M ONLY INTERESTED IN INCOMEā€
  63. CHAPTER 57: ā€œBUT STILL I INSIST ON MY DIVIDENDSā€
  64. CHAPTER 58: PUT THEM AWAY IN THE BOX AND FORGET THEM
  65. CHAPTER 59: THAT OLD DEVIL MARGIN
  66. CHAPTER 60: NOT JUST A MARKET OF STOCKS
  67. CHAPTER 61: CORRELATIONS AND CAUSES
  68. CHAPTER 62: THE ā€œFUNDAMENTALSā€
  69. CHAPTER 63: ACCRUED VS. REALIZED
  70. CHAPTER 64: UP IS BETTER THAN DOWN
  71. CHAPTER 65: THE UP-AND-DOWN OF IT
  72. CHAPTER 66: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
  73. CHAPTER 67: A VARIETY OF DEVICES
  74. CHAPTER 68: CAN ANY MAN PREDICT THE FUTURE?
  75. CHAPTER 69: THE METHOD OF EVALUATION
  76. CHAPTER 70: BUILDING THE METHOD
  77. CHAPTER 71: THE METHOD IS BUILT FROM THE BARE BONES
  78. CHAPTER 72: PUTTING THE METHOD TO WORK
  79. CHAPTER 73: HABIT CAN BE A PITFALL
  80. CHAPTER 74: CHAIN AND FLASH REACTIONS
  81. CHAPTER 75: NUMBERS CAN BE PITFALLS
  82. CHAPTER 76: THE WONDERFUL CURVES
  83. CHAPTER 77: LOSSES CAN BE PITFALLS
  84. CHAPTER 78: PROFITS CAN BE PITFALLS
  85. CHAPTER 79: COMMON SENSE CAN BE A PITFALL
  86. CHAPTER 80: THE PIG WATCHERS
  87. CHAPTER 81: THE LIMITS OF PREDICTION
  88. CHAPTER 82: IS THE MARKET A GAME?
  89. CHAPTER 83: THE PURELY MATHEMATICAL ODDS
  90. CHAPTER 84: THE STRATEGY OF YOUR OPPONENT
  91. CHAPTER 85: THE PAYOFF
  92. CHAPTER 86: FRACTIONIZING VS. MAXIMIZING
  93. CHAPTER 87: ACCENTUATE THE NEGATIVE
  94. CHAPTER 88: NET LONG-TERM GAINS
  95. INDEX

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