20/20 Money See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

2O/2O Money: See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

To be a more successful investor, you need to see the investment landscape more clearly. 20/20 Money--from Fisher Investments Press--can help you achieve this goal.

Designed to help you think differently about your investing choices, this reliable resource addresses new ideas and challenges widely held conventions. With 20/20 Money as your guide, you'll quickly learn how gaining a firm understanding of various concepts--from stock market and systems theory to neuroscience and psychology--can help you begin making better investment decisions. Along the way, you'll also discover some of the most successful strategies for thinking and learning, and how they can be applied to your investing endeavors.

To become a better investor, you have to have the discipline to make tough choices--choices that may not always be in line with tradition or commonly accepted invested wisdom. But the approach outlined throughout these pages can help you gain the vision to begin making better-informed investment decisions.

There are books that tell you how to handle a down market. There are books that tell you how to invest as if the stock market operates in a straight lineup. Unfortunately, these books operate in a vacuum. In reality, markets fluctuate. To truly outperform the market, an investor cannot simply ride the wavesthey must learn to see the world differently than the herd. They must learn to filter the daily fog and noise and see markets with clarity. The winning investor must look in unconventional places for investing insightfrom timeless (but often shunned) investing wisdom to cutting edge scientific discoveries. Thats what 20/20 Money is all about. While many believe markets are completely random, by taking a closer look it is possible to see differently than the crowd and identify the important features of difficult markets. In 20/20 Money, readers will learn how a unique mixture of neuroscience, psychology, physical sciences, stock market theory, and history can allow investors to see clearly in todays market. With this information in hand, investors will discover what it takes to think differently than the herd and profit in volatile markets. Understanding how to navigate through panics and maniasand everything in betweenis one of the most important skills any investor can learn. With the right approach, it is possible to achieve this difficult goal, and with 20/20 Money as their guide, readers will gain the sharp focus needed to protect their portfolios and produce superior long-term returns in even the most difficult market conditions.

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Asking the Right Questions. Chapter 1: Investing is a Science. Apollo's Arrow Shot Crooked. DionysusMore Than Just a Good Vintner. Use the Method, Not the Dogma. Careful with Categories. Could Math be Wrong? Reduction: Why You Can't Quantify Everything. Chapter 2: Investing is a Discipline. Discipline, Discipline, Discipline. Sagacity: Seeing Isn't Believing. Understanding and Being Curious. Chapter 3: Human Behavior. Brain Basics. Brains on the Market. My, What a Terrible Memory You Have! Bad Behaviorism. Behavioral Miscellany. Chapter 4: Sentiment and the Media. Sentiment Basics. News and the Media. What's Their Motive? Tips and Tricks to Navigate the Media. Metaphors We Invest By. Chapter 5: How Stock Markets Really Work. Capitalism by Any Other Name. It's ComplicatedA Crash Course in CEAS. The New Golden Rule. Oldest and Still the Best: Supply and Demand. Chapter 6: Forecasting, Part 1The Principle of Probability. Forecasting Is Strange Alchemy. Types of Predictions. Probability Theory, or How Markets Are Nothing Like Coin Tosses. The Biggest Problem of Them All. Investing Lessons from Probability. Looking Ahead Chapter 7: Forecasting, Part 2 Recognizing Patterns. A Pattern by Any Other Name. Stock Market Patterns. Patterns through the Noise. It's a Game of Relative Expectations. Back to the Future: Using History to Find Patterns. Three Big Drivers. An Optimistic Note on Future Patterns. Chapter 8: Practical Portfolio Management. The Virtues of Heuristics. Goal Setting. Personal Goals. Portfolio Goals. The Top-Down Philosophy. Miscellaneous Heuristics. Chapter 9: The Nature of Risk and Navigating Markets in Troubled Times. Risk and Uncertainty. Financial Risk, or What Happens When You Assume. In Troubled Times. Parting Thoughts. Notes. Selected Bibliography and Further Reading. About the Author. Index.