Winning the mental game on Wall Street : the psychology and philosophy of successful investing /: the psychology and philosophy of successful investing. (©2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Magee ; edited by W.H.C. Bassetti.
• Other Names: Magee, John, 1901-1987; Bassetti, W. H. C; Magee, John, 1901-1987
• Contents: Introduction; The Big Game; Black Magic; The Villain; The Blind; Out of the Darkness; The Camera; The Primary Receptors; A Starting Point; One-to-One; Of Maps; Dating This Map; Bringing Data Up to Date; The Twenty-Six Lead Soldiers; Maps of Maps; The Pigeonholes; The Labels; Not Quite The Same; Up and Down The Ladder; Similarities and Differences; Beyond the World of Things; The Meanings we Attach to Maps; Maps Without Territories; An Exceedingly Complex Machine; Layers of Awareness; Time Binding; Stop! Look! Listen!; Contradictions; Let's Not Be Too Anthropocentric; Sanity Must be Achieved; The Thinking Process; The Vagueness of the High Abstractions; "To Me"; Either/Or; The Dangerous Nature of Dichotomy; Three-Valued Orientation; Multi-Valued Systems; Infinite-Valued Systems; The Greeks Had a Phrase For It; Imperfect Information; Why Does It Hurt So Much; Profits Can Be Painful, Too; Predicting the Future; The Method of Prediction; Hunting; Positive Feedback; What is Value?; Asking the Right Questions; Two Practical Questions For Everyday; Balderdash, Unlimited; We Can't Get it All; The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth; Interlude; Dated Data; "Buy Good, Sound Stocks"; "I am Interested Only in Income"; "But Still I Insist on my Dividends"; Put Them Away in the Box and Forget Them; Dat Ol' Debbil Margin; Not Just a Market of Stocks; Correlations and Causes; The "Fundamentals"; Accrued VS Realized; Up is Better Than Down; The Up-and-Down of It; Politics and Economics; A Variety of Devices; Can Any Man Predict the Future?; The Method of Evaluation; Building the Method; The Method is Built From the Bare Bones; Putting the Method to Work; Habit Can Be a Pitfall; Chain and Flash Reactions; Numbers Can Be a Pitfall; The Wonderful Curves; Losses Can Be Pitfalls; Profits Can Be Pitfalls; Common Sense Can be a Pitfall; The Pig Watchers; The Limits of Prediction; Is the Market a Game?; The Purely Mathematical Odds; The Strategy of Your Opponent; The Payoff; Fractionizing VS Maximizing; Accentuate the Negative; Net Long-Term Gains; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : St. Lucie Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Copyright Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (424 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 332.6; Stocks; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- General; Stocks; Effectenbeurzen; Aandelen; Investeringen; Psychologische aspecten; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420033090; 1420033093; 9780910944175; 0910944172
• Related ISBNs: 0910944172
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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