November 2012
Beginner
343 pages
8h 12m
English
book
Market Sense and Nonsense: How the Markets Really Work (and How They Don't)
by Jack D. Schwager, Joel Greenblatt
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Index
Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs)
Allocation bias
Allocation decisions, future
AMEX Internet Index
Arbitrage
Arbitrary investment rules
ARM subprime mortgages
Asness, Clifford
Automatic selling
Automatic trading
Average maximum retracement (AMR)
Average pair correlation
Average return
Back-adjusted return measures
gain-to-pain ratio (GPR)
MAR and Calmar ratios
return retracement ratio (RRR)
risk-adjusted return performance measures
Sharpe ratio
Sortino ratio
strategy comparison
symmetric downside-risk (SDR) Sharpe ratio
tail ratio
Backfilling bias
Backwardation
Bankrupt stocks
Bear market of 2008
Bear market returns
Bear markets
vulnerability
Behavioral biases
Bernanke, Ben
Best strategy
risk for
standard deviation
Beta
and correlation
quantitative measures
Black Monday (October 19, 1987)
Black Tuesday (October 29, 1920)
Bottoms-up allocation
Brady commission
Bubbles
and crashes
emotion-driven
housing (mid-2000s)
Internet
market
price
tech
timing and level
Bubbles and crashes
Bull market
Bull market of 2009
Burn rate
Calls
Calmar ratio
and MAR ratio
Capital gains
Capital losses
Capital structure arbitrage
Carve-out portfolio
Catastrophe insurance
Cause-and-effect relationship
Church, George J.
Clarity Portfolio Viewer
Closet benchmarker
Closet index fund
CNBC
Coincident negative return (CNR) matrix
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
vs. commercial paper
Commercial paper, vs. collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Commodity prices ...
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