出版日期:2004-12
ISBN:9780470821527
作者:Stephen Vines
页数:266页
书籍目录
Acknowledgements List of Figures Preface Chapter 1 Preparing for panics and profiting from them Bear markets yield the biggest gains Bring on the crises Buying panics Why are investors bargain-averse? A simple strategy for success Booms and bubbles Identifying crashes and panics Teling signs Learning from history Professionalism,Oscar Wilde and the conducting of orchestrasChapter 2 Types of panics Phoney panics Self-induced or end-of cycle panics Contagious panics Real panics Panics follow the market's own biarre logicChapter 3 The panic cycle Panics get bigger,more unpredictable Volatility Looking for causes of boom-and -bust cycles Stages of the cycle Government attempts to cope with panics This time,will it be different? New world-new crashes Dubious practices and crooks move in More a case of neglect than fraudChapter 4 A new age of panics Chapter 5 The trader and the fund manager Chapter 6 The psychology of panics Chapter 7 Does diversification provide protection against stock market fluctuations? Chapter 8 Is the market always right? Chapter 9 Opportunity Notes Select Bibliography Index
作者简介
An engaging book that offers a comprehensive and provocative analysis of the market panic phenomenon
Why are stock markets regularly gripped by panics? What gives rise to these panics? Are markets becoming more panic-prone? In Market Panic, leading market commentator Stephen Vines provides some unique answers to these questions and shows why panics offer incredible opportunities to stock market investors. He challenges some long-held assumptions about the benefits of investment diversification, offers new ways of understanding the panic cycle, and demonstrates how to predict the onset of panics. Vines also looks at how stock markets are becoming detached from the companies and economies they are supposed to represent, thus building a new and more dangerous form of instability into the market system
From the Inside Flap
Many investors have shunned equity markets since the end of the dotcom boom, marking the end of the biggest global stock market bull run in history. Other investors have made a great deal of money by ignoring the disillusion with equities and have stuck with the one investment class that has outperformed all others over time. In this incisive study Stephen Vines shows how stock markets operate in good times and bad and provides timely advice on how to benefit from the regular cycle of market panic and market boom. He provides some unusual answers to questions regularly asked by investors and shows why panics offer unique opportunities. Long held assumptions about the benefits of investment diversification are challenged and new ways of understanding the panic cycle are offered. Interviews with market professionals directly involved in handling some major stock crises provide a compelling insiders account of what actually happens when panics break out. This book also looks at ways in which stock markets are becoming more detached from the companies and economies they are supposed to represent and shows how this is building a new and more dangerous form of instability into the market system. This is a truly comprehensive study examining all aspects of the stock market panic phenomenon. Presented in readable, jargon-free form this book will be of interest to anyone who invests in stock markets and is interested in preserving their wealth.