After the 2nd week it looks
like fear of loss is gone and a different mechanism kicks in for the duration.
Not exact matches
When it came to marketing, we often saw brands capitalizing on older adult's
fear of life threatening situations, including a fall,
loss of memory or motor skills, or other health related issues
like a stroke or heart attack.
Between the trend away from pensions, some hard
losses in the past few years (Dot Com and Housing crashes and resulting
fear of stocks) and the emphasis recently on «give your kids everything» (private education, expensive colleges, etc etc etc), it does not seem
like a stretch that retirement savings are put on the back burner.
However, I think many people keep a lot
of money in «safe investments»
like money market accounts out
of fear of loss and lack
of investing knowledge, not because they want to.
The risk
of cutting and running
like so many
fear - driven investors did on that fateful 1987 day is that even if you avoided some
losses by selling early, you'd run the risk
of missing out on the recovery because, well, how would you know when to jump back in?
But as we have learned, wherever there is metaphor the demon
of nonlinearity can go to work, arousing the usual
fears about unpredictability and
loss of rational control, as we see in people
like Francis Bacon, John Locke, the French critic - novelist Alain Robbe - Grillet, and the late Paul de Man.
«For a city
like New York City, the biggest
fear is the
loss of federal funds,» said Aaron Pallas, the chair
of the Department
of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction
of habitats
like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics
fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the
loss of animals and plants which live on land.
Soderberg's success with tapping into the audience's worst
fears,
like he did in «Contagion» (2011), is repeated here with Sawyer's progressive
loss of control.
Although Clooney's involvement may draw a crowd that will have expectations that are unmet, much the same way Adam Sandler had with Punch - Drunk Love, he does a commendable job acting in this film, especially when handling such complicated issues
like the
loss of a loved one or
fear of the unknown.
Tocqueville
feared that if ever Americans neglected their participation in associations or local government entities
like school committees, the tendency would be toward a
loss of liberty and a surrender to what Tocqueville called a «mild despotism.»
Things
like the
fear of failure, writer's block, procrastination and
loss of ideas are some
of the challenges writers face.
While there's little reason to
fear a catastrophic
loss of pensions — Ontario retirees do have the Pension Benefits Guaranty Fund after all — it's prudent never to put all your eggs into a single basket, whether it be a single corporate pension, government benefits
like CPP or OAS, or personal savings.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview
of tens
of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-
of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack
of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack
of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead
of a small business • Lack
of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead
of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead
of doing your own research • Lack
of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen -
like simplicity is the key) • Lack
of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack
of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack
of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack
of risk management rules on stop
losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack
of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (
fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep -
like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead
of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead
of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics
of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead
of just listening to it and going against the trend instead
of following it
Besides introducing you to a proven Forex trading methodology and showing you how to improve performance by running your trading operations
like a business, this book also addresses some the most important psychological aspects
of trading including greed,
fear,
loss, and isolation and discusses what you must do to overcome such obstacles.
Wild dogs are likely to present with symptoms that mimic rabies
like strange behaviors and the
loss of normal
fears.
And apropos
of dbostrom # 361, illuminating the deep
fear of loss of individual freedom that drives Lindzen, Fred Singer, and so many others: note that in practice this means the freedom to add another billion people every 15 years, to dig up anything we possibly can and turn it into stuff we
like to consume, and to protect multinational corporations from interference in their pursuit
of life, liberty, and happiness.
Fixed Index Annuities: These are just
like the traditional fixed annuities, however, their growth is market linked and there is no
fear of loss of the premium.
I have a keen appreciation
of the gifts in my life and second chances and these
losses and success gave me courage to face
fears like I never had before.