止损 – What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul, Brendan Moynihan

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这本书将改变你以后的投资生涯

亏损在真实的投资世界里是无法避免的，而控制亏损才是大师与庸人的区别所在。本书作者年纪轻轻就在芝加哥商业交易所升至董事的高位，却又因为一连串的骄纵自大，赔掉一切，包括他的财富、声誉和工作。在本书中，作者诚实、坦白地重新检视了导致自己做出灾难性决策的过程，深入探索了这些投资失策背后的心理因素。作者以自己的亲身经历告诉我们，应该如何建立一个简单的决策框架，从而在交易中避开常见的心理陷阱，保持清醒头脑，将可能的亏损控制在非常低限度。

Jim Paul’s meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all—his fortune, his reputation, and his job—in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul’s disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors.

This book—winner of a 2014 Axiom Business Book award gold medal—begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It then describes the circumstances leading up to Paul’s $1.6 million loss and the essential lessons he learned from it—primarily that, although there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people participating in them, all losses come from the same few sources.

Investors lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis. While all analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for instances in which they do not work, psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to abandon one method for another in order to rationalize the decisions already made. Paul and Moynihan’s cautionary tale includes strategies for avoiding loss tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, and dodging the dangers of investing, trading, and speculating.