…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…
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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
…refute their research — just this generalized, unsupported conclusion: “Even if you learn all the new rules from the new pop-psychology books your brain will unconsciously ignore the new neuroeconomic…
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…
The Dreman Strategy: How to Turn Others' Fears into Your Profits
…investor psychology. In fact, his first book, written in 1977, was titled Psychology and the Stock Market (unless otherwise noted, however, all quoted material for this chapter comes from Contrarian…
Grantham on Cycles, Bargains, and the "Creative Tension" Facing Stock Investors
…new lows in 2009 as it overshoots fair value. Grantham offers some insightful thoughts on the psychology of deciding whether to buy stocks in the current climate. If he puts…
Ten Lessons from The Oracle
…by Warren Buffett. The lessons mostly focus not on financial expertise, but instead on psychology. “Buffett’s investment success comes from some easy-to-grasp human qualities as much as sophisticated expertise in…
Buffett's "Timeless" Predictions
…Buffett offers up to long-term stock market investors. After a year like 2008, Buffett’s lessons provide some perspective on dealing with recessions, bear markets and investor psychology. 1. Recessions can’t…
Is Buffett Market Timing?
…in the “psychology of market participants and what kind of supply-demand pressure that will create in the short-term than on the value of underlying businesses.” In the end, both strategies…