Buy the Book: The Money Game is a series of stories on the games people play with money and markets. Told by Adam Smith (aka George Goodman), the stories uncover the emotion, error, myth, and irrationality that surrounds it all.
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The Art of Speculation by Philip Carret
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Based on a series of articles written for Barron’s in 1927, Philip Carret writes an extensive introduction to the stock market, while laying the groundwork for market cycles, economic cycles, value investing, biases, and behavior.
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Why You Win or Lose: The Psychology of Speculation by Fred C. Kelly
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Fred C. Kelly figured out that behavior plays a bigger part in investor success than most thought. That he did so in 1930, says a lot about how little human nature changes. Kelly proposed that by acting counter — contrarian — to the general tendencies of most market participants, one avoids most typical mistakes, and succeeds at investing. Studying average investor mistakes presents a guide to future dangers.
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The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by James Montier
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James Montier writes about the many ways investors are their own worst enemies. The book concentrates on the many repeated behavioral mistakes investors inflict on themselves that negatively impact returns in the process.
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Why Don’t We Learn From History? by B.H. Liddell Hart
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B. H. Liddell Hart wrote the book as a summary of the history of warfare. Rather than writing the lessons we learn from history, he inverts the message to the many lessons we fail to learn from history.
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Quarterly Reading – Winter ’19
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It’s time for another quarterly reading update (these updates are mostly for my own accountability, but if you find something that interests you, great). Several projects ate into reading time, which meant fewer books over the past three months. The plan is to get back into it in 2019.
Here’s what I’ve been reading over the past quarter: Continue Reading…
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