The Psychology of Smart Investing

Written by a board-certified psychiatrist and the founder of Chicago's best-known brokerage firm, it contains the psychological tools essential to breaking through mental barriers in order to achieve a successful mindset. Examines such common psychological traps as loneliness, poor self-esteem, depression, wishful thinking, self-destructiveness, addiction to playing the markets, revenge and internal conflicts. Packed with anecdotes and case histories, it includes insights drawn from two unusual investor surveys--typical investors versus famous investors and market ``gurus.'' The Psychology of Smart Investing.

The Small Investors Survey.

The Professional Investors Survey.

The Mind/Money Journal.

The Personal Money Timeline.

Finding Helpers and Mentors.

Dreams and Fantasies: Keys to Instinctive Trading.

How to ``Lose Your Mind''.

The Conflicted Investor.

The Depressed Investor.

The Revenging Investor.

The Masked Investor.

The Fussy Investor.

The Paranoid Investor.

The Wild Card Types.

Ten Rules for Smart Trading.

Keeping the Right Distance Between Your Mind and Your Money.

Appendices.

Index.

Ira Epstein and David Garfield are the authors of The Psychology of Smart Investing: Meeting the 6 Mental Challenges, published by Wiley.