…as Altria (after the tobacco stock plummeted amid lawsuit concerns) and Tyco (which had been hit hard by an embarrassing CEO fiasco). Psychology Matters How — and why — did…
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Bogle on What "Long-Term" Really Means, and Stock-Picking Dangers
…strategy and investor psychology. Here are some of his thoughts on: The minimum holding period for stock investors: “If you are going to be in the stock market for less…
Small-Cap Value to Lead During Recovery? A Few To Watch
…early periods of economic expansion. That pattern, Russell found, has been strongest among small-cap stocks. Source: Russell Investments The reason for the pattern is rooted in investor psychology, according to…
Munger on Success, Economists, and Why the Feds Got Lehman Right
…of its lame leg. … If you totally divorce economics from psychology, you’ve gone a long way toward divorcing it from reality.” On whether the financial world will shift back…
Opposing Views from Two Top Market-Timers
…based on the sum of the two previous ones.” “Prechter … also argues that markets are fundamentally driven by social psychology. The current trend toward saving and avoidance of debt…
How Your Brain Can Drag You Down -- and How You Can Overcome It
…Pittsburgh, undergoing several different DNA analyses and brain scans. Hariri’s tests measure a variety of genetic predispositions to certain types of attitudes and behaviors regarding different risk/reward scenarios. Among the…
Get into “The Glitch” -- 10 Top Scoring Price-to-Sales Stocks
…of investor psychology, and one thing he believed investors did was raise expectations to unrealistic levels for companies that have periods of strong early growth. When these darlings of Wall…
Good Quant, Bad Quant
MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell recently offered up a scathing critique of “quants”, complete with this eye-catching subhead: “By Predicting Your Behavior, Quants Control Your Mind, Money, the Markets”. Since I run…
Shiller: It's The Psychology, Stupid
Don’t underestimate the impact psychology has on the stock market and economy — that’s the message Yale economist and housing crisis predictor Robert Shiller recently gave during a lecture at…
Why You Can Be Good -- But Probably Not Great
…“They have to do with psychology, and psychology is hard wired into your brain,” Sellers explains. “It’s a part of you. You can’t do much to change it even if…