I know last month's article was a little depressing but it was important and here's why: We take daily actions in pursuit of a better life, to move away from pain and towards happiness, while the underlying emotions of
fear and greed drive us.
Fear and greed drive sheep to theism.
Not exact matches
Investors are
driven by two emotions:
fear and greed.
«Despite the comfortable academic consensus of market efficiency, financial markets will never be efficient because markets are,
and will always be,
driven by human emotions:
greed and fear» Seth Klarman
... which is to say
fear,
greed and other primitive instincts
drive your decision making.
These performance spreads are
driven by valuations, expectations,
and often simply
greed and fear being played out on an industry level.
Gold prices were said to have become a barometer of political
and economic
fears, but in the end it was just pure
GREED that
drove the price until it finally peaked in January 1980 at $ 875 an ounce, almost on the very day that Americans were finally allowed to buy
and own Gold bullion; the day that the big surge of American buying was to
drive Gold to $ 5,000.
When you follow an objective trading plan, you will find that your mind is free of
fear,
greed, hope
and regret (four primary emotions that
drive the stock market),
and will be more likely to make sound trading decisions.
Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly
drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in
fear or in anger or in
greed, the great
and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.
Now, as an ER doc
and outside the political fishbowl (mostly), I see more clearly a sad truth: As long as
greed drives our birth care, our personal decisions become political,
feared,
and attacked.
Indeed, director / co - writer / star Jay Chandrasekhar provides an intriguingly astute observation on the loss of innocence
and masculine silliness in a world
driven by
fear, corruption,
greed, depravity
and financial insecurity.
The
fears, dreams
and greed surrounding gold results in speculation —
driven by what people think it could be worth.
Graham's point was that
fear,
greed,
and other emotions (the voting machine) can
drive short - term market fluctuations which in turn cause disconnects between the price
and true value of a company's shares.
The market right now is
driven by
fear and greed,
and the old rules don't apply.
Psychological biases cause investors to underreact or overreact to new information, as
fear,
greed,
and emotion tend to
drive investment decisions.
Such a high degree of volatility could be unsettling
and drive irrational behavior, such as selling out of
fear or buying
and leveraging out of
greed.
The lessons we have learned from the previous cycles are that over the short - term valuations tend to be
driven by supply / demand
and fear /
greed.
The market is
driven by
fear and greed, i.e good news at the top, sell
and bad news at the bottom, buy.
Fear and greed (fed by the «noise» of numerous opinions)
drive untimely buys
and sells.
The answer is quite simply that
fear and greed can often
drive the markets.
And in turn, your reaction (no matter how you agree, or disagree), is mostly
driven by
fear &
greed too... as you worry about possibly exhilarating gains & gut - wrenching losses in your portfolio.
Fear and greed are the two emotions that
drive the market
and makes or breaks the trader.
Returning to the
fear and greed dichotomy discussed in Article 4.1, we can see that the concept of risk tolerance as an investing tool is
driven mostly by
fear.
Fund flow data from mutual funds show that investors routinely buy high
and sell low, riding alternatively waves of emotion -
driven greed and fear at precisely the wrong times.
Curated by Susette Min, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, this exhibition explores the competing meanings of hospitality
and the different ways it can be seen as a form of welcome or hostility,
driven by necessity
and greed,
fear and desires
and subject to conventional demands of etiquette
and the law.
These emotions swing from one extreme (of hope
and greed) to the other (of
fear and despair),
and drive the market to trend
and countertrend, in larger
and smaller degrees.
Unlike traded REITs, where value is tied to the price at which shares trade on an exchange
and is often influenced by emotions (such as
fear and greed) that
drive public markets, shareholders of NTRs see value equal to the cost of the asset at the time of purchase.