Trading Stocks

How to keep a cool head when the financial news turns scary? Two professors who study the markets and investor psychology will have some advice. Harvard’s David Laibson specializes in behavioral economics, while Princeton’s Burton Malkiel is author of the investment classic, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Also joining us will be Tom Petrie, [...]

Wall Street

In his book ‘A random walk down Wall Street’ Burton G. Malkiel makes an interesting point on the fact that your psychological makeup will have a big influence on the risk you are willing to assume.

He mentions one investment advisor that explains how you could look at your strategy when playing Monopoly to help you [...]

I think before anyone embarks upon serious study of trading, then trying to make a living at trading, he/she ought consider the style of trading that best fits their personality.  Unfortunately, the term “trader” means a lot of things and encompasses a wide range of trading styles and methodologies.   My personal style of trading reflects [...]

In the late 1960s, conglomerate mergers–mergers across industries–created an investment bubble that grew and burst.

There are two main ways of picking stocks (or any kind of investment).
Fundamental analysis is concerned with looking at the economic fundamentals affecting the particuar stock (etc) and covers everything from the economy it operates in (interest rates, unemployment, exchange rates etc), through sector prospects (is the sector growing or declining, the competition etc) down [...]

A trading system is merely an approach to organizing facts and understanding relationships about markets. Presumably, the idea behind a trading system is to arrive at a series of steps which, generally translated, result in expectations based on if-then scenarios. It is presumed that by following the procedures and rules of a trading system which [...]

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition

Random Walk Down Wall Street