Chapter 5: The Life Cycle and Psychology of an Investment Crowd Chapter 6: The Historical Context for Market Mistakes Chapter 7: How Crowds Communicate Chapter 8: Constructing Your Media Diary Chapter 9: Important Investment Themes Chapter 10: Interpreting Your Diary - Market Semiotics Chapter 11: The Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading Chapter 12: The Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Bymonitoring crowd beliefs revealed by news media headlines - and with theguidance provided by the many historical examples Futia provides - a trader orinvestor will be well-equipped to anticipate and profit from market turningpoints Key Topics Covered:Chapter 1: Can You Beat the Market? Chapter 2: Market Mistakes Chapter 3: The Edge Chapter 4: The Wisdom and Follies of Crowds. Findout when the Aggressive Contrarian Trader bought and sold during the bull marketof 2002-2007. Read about the causes of the Panic of 2008 and ups and downs ofcontrarian trading during that dangerous time.
Futia shows you how the market turning points during the 1982-2008 period wereforeshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that astonishingly andconsistently encouraged investors to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. See how this GrandStrategy worked during the Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Watch the ContrarianRebalancing technique in practice during the dot crash of 2000-2002. stock market - a time during which Futia kept his own mediadiary and developed his Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading.
Discover thepower of your Media Diary - and how to use it to spot these informationcascades, measure the strength of the crowd's beliefs, and decide when thecrowd's view is about to be proven wrong. You will watch Futia apply these principles of contrarian trading to navigatesafely and profitably through the last 26 tumultuous years of roller coasterswings in the U.S. Find out how to apply the No Free Lunchprinciple to identify profitable trading methods. Learn about the wisdom and thefollies of investment crowds - and how crowds are formed by information cascadesthat drive stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Why is it so hard to beat the market? How can you avoid getting caught inbubbles and crashes? You will find the answers in Carl Futia's new book, The Artof Contrarian Trading. This book will teach you Futia's novel method ofcontrarian trading from the ground up. In 16 chapters filled with facts and many historical examples Futia explains theprinciples and practice of contrarian trading.
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