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Market Sense and Nonsense: How the Markets Really Work (and How They Don't)

ISBN: 978-1-118-49456-1
368 pages
December 2012
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November 28, 2012

Jack D. Schwager Has a New Book on the Markets, Focused on the Ways Traders Make Mistakes, Misread Markets, and Fall for Classic Market Mythology

Many investors seek guidance from the advice of financial experts available through both broadcast and print media. Is this advice beneficial?

Jack Schwager, a well-known author, fund manager and an industry expert in futures and hedge funds challenges the assumptions at the core of investment theory and practice and exposes common investor mistakes, missteps, myths, and misreads.

In the book Market Sense and Nonsense: How the Markets Really Work (and How They Don't), Schwager picks them off, one at a time, revealing the truth about many of the fallacious assumptions, theories, and beliefs at the core of investment theory and practice.

The book, published by Wiley includes thirty-two investment observations covering topics on ‘markets, return, and risk’, ‘hedge funds as an investment’ and ‘portfolio matters’.

Schwager has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders in all financial markets. He is best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the past two decades: Market Wizards (1989, new edition 2012), The New Market Wizards (1992), Stock Market Wizards (2001), and Hedge Fund Market Wizards (2012). Schwager’s first book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets (1984), is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field.

Market Sense and Nonsense is a compilation of the most insidious, fundamental investment errors he observed over his long and distinguished career in the markets. It is a highly readable source of information and guidance for general readers interested in investment, trading, and finance.

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