Success and Survival on Wall Street

Understanding the Mind of the Market

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

This book takes the reader on an insider’s tour of the psychology of stock market investing. In more than 3,000 hours of interviews and observations, Smith granted some of the most famous insiders on Wall Street the protection of anonymity to procure their deepest and most frank views on the operation of the market. Their words are heard here in vivid and often surprising detail. What emerges is a startling portrait of how the prejudices of six different types of players—fundamentalists, insiders, cyclists, traders, efficient market believers, and transformational idea adherents—influence the ups and downs of the market. Smith explains how new trends, such as computer trading and mutual and retirement fund investing, interact with these psychologies—drawing a remarkable picture of how market behavior is inherently more human than technical.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-10-23
Mått:139 x 218 x 13 mm
Vikt:281 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742516878

Utforska kategorier

Internationell ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Charles W. Smith is professor and chair of sociology at Queens College, CUNY. The Mind of the Market, his earlier work, was an Alternative Selection of the Book of the Month Club and Fortune Book Club. Market Values in American Higher Education, Smith’s next work, is due out in the Spring of 2000.

Recensioner i media

In his deeply ironic analysis, Charles Smith shows us that the highly specialized milieux of securities markets resemble life in general; mysterious in some ways, unpredictable in other ways, intimately dependent on socially created stories in every regard, yet centered on mundane transactions of sale and purchase. What's more, Smith relates the market's operation to the everyday activities of its uncertain, often worried participants.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 The Ambiguity of the MarketPart 2 The True BelieversPart 3 Selling the MarketPart 4 Cynicism, Faith and FoolishnessPart 5 Putting it All TogetherPart 6 Some Practical Advice for the Individual InvestorPart 7 A Theoretical and Methodological NotePart 8 A Selected Glossary of Stock Market Terminology