Tag Archives: stocks
002 Cognitive Bias: Mental Accounting
Notes from Think Like the Great Investors by Colin Nicholson: New investors are always looking for a guru or a perfect system to tell them what to invest in. This is flawed because no system is perfect all the time … Continue reading
On Contrarian Stock Picking
To be a successful investor requires us to take a contrarian position. We are able to fool ourselves into thinking we are contrarian investors when in fact we are just following the herd. These are my notes from an essay … Continue reading
Street Smarts by Jim Rogers: a Review
Jim Rogers is well known as a commentator who often appears on TV money programs, so his financial views are well known. He is also a highly successful investor, having been a partner of George Soros at one point. As … Continue reading
Review of Street Smarts by Jim Rogers
(This video is a bit off topic, but it gives you an idea of what Rogers is like. The full documentary is about an hour and well worth watching to see how things used to be in China.) The … Continue reading
Understand Your Emotions to Make Money
1540 words Successful investors are able to ignore their emotions when they make a financial decision. This is particularly true with shares. In this synopsis of an essay ‘The Emotions of Risk’ by Richard A. Geist, a psychologist, we think … Continue reading