Number of pages: 448
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, INC.
BBB Library: Economics and Investment
ISBN: 9780470074992
Building new knowledge of how capital markets works is everyone's job, whether you accept that or not. You are part of it, whether you know it or not. By knowingly embracing it you can know things others don'tthings finance professionals don't know yet. You needn't be a finance professor or have any kind of background in finance to do it. To know things others don't you just need to think like a scientist. Think freshly and be curious and open. As a scientist, you should approach investing not with a rule set, but with an open, inquisitive mind. Like any good scientist, you must learn to ask questions. Your questions will help you develop hypotheses you can test for efficiency. In the course of your science inquiry, if you don't get good answers to your questions, it's better to be passive than make an actionable mistake. But merely asking questions won't by itself help you beat the markets. The questions must be the right ones leading to an action on which a bet can be made correctly. So, what are the right questions?
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