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Wanted: psychopaths to play the stock market
Times Online UK ^
| September 19, 2005
| Martin Waller
Posted on 09/18/2005 7:58:04 PM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham
I am way to complicated to be studied ;-)
To: Crackingham
The US team found that people with certain brain injuries which suppress their emotions could make the best stock market traders. Wow!
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:01:43 PM PDT
by
A. Pole
(" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! Bazaar Akbar! ")
To: Crackingham
well that explains why im doing good...
hopefully with future earnings i can afford a really good
shrink
then again maybe i dont one
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:02:50 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Crackingham
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:03:19 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Crackingham
Counting the number of replies till someone mentions George Soros . . .
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:03:34 PM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(check out my posts on Today Show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
To: Crackingham
Linking psychopathy with business seems to be an academic trend lately. There's some US corporate law professor who claims that corporations themselves behave in what would be called psychopathic were such behaviors seen in a lone person.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:05:13 PM PDT
by
Dumb_Ox
(Be not Afraid. "Perfect love drives out fear.")
To: Crackingham
Hey, I invented the stock market!
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:06:32 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
( Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: Crackingham
They claim the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes. Of course, why didn't I think of that. Real investing is making "high stakes gambles." What utter crock.
To: Crackingham
It has also been proven, mathetmatically, that investing in index funds is better than trying to play around in the market. Stock brokers and fund managers, besides those that use 'market tricks' (complex computer programs that exploit very small differences by using large funds), are generally all marketing a useless product... :)
Interesting about emotions, ties in with Ayn Rand objectivism and also a good deal of Eastern (meditative) thought.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:08:05 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm)
To: Flavius
Perhaps not, but you do need a functioning 'shift' key....
To: Flavius
What do you call the guy who re-tasks/arranges/focuses/acculturates the business while the "technical" owner is out "doing stuff", and makes the entity a total predator? I need a title.
< BFG>
To: Crackingham
Wasn't it Gordon Geko who said,"Greed is good"?He was kind of a cold character.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:17:40 PM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: Crackingham
The movie was Wall Street.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:19:35 PM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: Crackingham
Would Ted Kennedy fit the bill?
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:19:52 PM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:20:48 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Crackingham
Could the authors of this study possibly have been one of the Greenpeace disruptors successfully fought off by London City traders? See
this article for details.
Sod off swampy!
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:25:10 PM PDT
by
Heatseeker
("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Well, for a title you could try "Alligator General", if the business is along the SE coast.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:29:12 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: Dumb_Ox
Those corporations aren't really evil, just insane, and are a danger not only to themselves, but to others as well. They should be taken into government custody for everyone's safety.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:52:28 PM PDT
by
kenth
To: Crackingham
They don't fool me.
You'd have to be crazy to take this job.
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posted on
09/18/2005 8:57:11 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)
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