People lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological factors which prevent the application of the analysis. Most of the losses are due to the latter. All analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for the times when they won't work.
But psychological factors can keep you in a losing position and also cause you to abandon one method for another when the first one produces a losing position. The third part of the book shows you how to avoid the losses due to psychological factors.
Trading and investment mistakes are well known and easily understood but difficult to correct. What you need is not a long litany of complex psychological theories but a simple framework to help you understand, accept, and thereby avoid catastrophic losses. This book will help you recognize, identify, and avoid the pitfalls of investing, trading, and speculating. So, why a book on losing? Because, there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are participants but relatively few ways to lose, and despite all the books on how to make money in the markets, most of us aren't rich!
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Written in English — pages. Subjects Speculation , Psychological aspects of Speculation , Commodity exchanges , Psychological aspects. Not in Library. Libraries near you: WorldCat. What I learned losing a million dollars , Infrared Press. Other books use hypothetical character sketches to make their points while others simply compile a list of old saws about losses.
This book, on the other hand, entertains and educates you on the psychology of market losses in laymans terms, anecdotally, through the story of a trader who actually lost over a million dollars in the market. One of the premises of this book is that the rise sets up the fall; the winning sets up the losing.
You cant really be set up for disaster without having it preceded by success. If you go into a situation in a neutral position, having neither successes nor failures beforehand, you acknowledge that your odds are maybe fty-fty; you may have a winner, you may have loser. But if you start from scratch and have a run of successes, you are setting yourself up for the coming failure because the successes lead to a variety of psychological distortions. This is particularly true if you have unknowingly broken the rules of the game and won anyway.
Once that happens to you, you think that you are somehow special and exempt from following the rules. The seeds of Jims disaster were sown with his rst job at the age of nine.
His exposure to the outside world, money, and material things was the foundation for his careers sharp and quick ascent as well as its ultimate collapse.
Repeated attempts to make the money back by speculating in the markets ended in failure and left Jim disillusioned. He set out on a quest to nd out how the pros made money in the markets so he could follow their example. When youre sick you want to consult the best doctors; when youre in trouble you want the best lawyers; so Jim read all about the techniques of the xvi. But this search left him even more disillusioned since he discovered that the masters made money not only in widely varying ways but also in ways that contradicted each other.
What one market pro advocated, another ardently opposed. It nally occurred to him that studying losses, losing, and how not to lose was more important than studying how to make money.
The second part of the book presents the lessons Jim learned from his losing experience. Namely, there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people participating in the markets, but there are relatively few ways to lose money in the markets. People lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological factors that prevent the application of the analysis.
Most of the losses are due to the latter. All analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for the times when they wont work. But psychological factors can keep you in a losing position and also cause you to abandon one method for another when the rst one produces a losing position. The third part of the book shows you how to avoid the losses due to psychological factors. Trading and investment mistakes are well known and easily understood but dicult to correct.
What you need is not a long litany of complex psychological theories but a simple framework to help you understand, accept, and thereby avoid catastrophic losses. This book will help you recognize, identify, and avoid the pitfalls of investing, trading, and speculating. So, why a book on losing? Because, there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are participants but relatively few ways to lose, and despite all the books on how to make money in the markets, most of us arent rich!
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