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The Anxious Investor audiobook
- By: Scott Nations
- Narrator: Scott Nations
- Category: Personal Growth, Self-Help, Success
- Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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The Anxious Investor Audiobook Summary
A revelatory new guide to building wealth amidst stock market crashes and uncertain economic conditions, drawing upon financial modeling, behavioral psychology, and market history to offer practical advice to everyday investors.
Investing is scary. Never is that more true than during market pullbacks and recessions, whether the Great Recession of 2008; the brief, vertiginous COVID crash in 2020; or any number of recent smaller, yet still wrenching, periods of economic turbulence. We see those flashing red numbers and all semblance of “planning” or “risk tolerance” suddenly goes out the window. We wonder: Will I ever be able to retire? Should I be buying GameStop stock? What, uh, is this stock market thing, anyway?
Scott Nations has spent his career studying market volatility. His firm, NationsShares, is the world’s leading independent developer of volatility and option-enhanced indexes. In The Anxious Investor, he teaches readers how to understand the markets, master their own fear, and make the most of their money.
In the first half of the book, Nations offers a quick, compelling rundown of the worst financial crashes in American history, focusing on their causes, the recovery, and the lessons each holds for today’s investors. Interwoven with these stories are fascinating cutting-edge insights into investor psychology: What makes investing so scary? What can behavioral science teach us about overcoming our “lizard brain,” which is notorious for making poor financial decisions? What can help us stay the course when the waters get choppy? In the book’s second section, Nations offers a roadmap that any investor can follow, with practical, easy-to-understand advice to help guide readers through the 3 different types of market conditions (normal, crash/bear market, recovery).
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The Anxious Investor Audiobook Narrator
Scott Nations is the narrator of The Anxious Investor audiobook that was written by Scott Nations
Scott Nations is the president of NationsShares, a financial engineering firm. He is a regular contributor to CNBC, where he frequently appears on-air to discuss markets, derivatives, and other investment topics. He is the author of two technical books for option traders, Options Math for Traders and The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
About the Author(s) of The Anxious Investor
Scott Nations is the author of The Anxious Investor
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The Anxious Investor Full Details
| Narrator | Scott Nations |
| Length | 7 hours 58 minutes |
| Author | Scott Nations |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | April 05, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9780063067639 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Anxious Investor is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Personal Growth, Self-Help, Success
Additional info
The publisher of the The Anxious Investor is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063067639.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Sarah
December 08, 2022
Just as it is the nature of the stock market to fluctuate wildly, it is natural for investors to react irrationally to these shifts. Whether they are clinging to declining stocks to avoid realizing the loss, falling prey to herd mentality, or overreacting to what are ultimately just hiccups, the end result is always self-inflicted ruin. Nations breaks down a few of the most dramatic market crashes to illustrate exactly how and why investors shot themselves in the foot. His practical advice basically boils down to “Diversify” and “Don't Panic,” but the writing is engaging and the historical and psychological information are interesting.
Anas
January 22, 2023
The Author does a great job in highlighting key incidents in history when the stock market dropped but then rebounded. This helps the anxious investor understand that drops are only normal and actually healthy for the stock market.
Jim
June 26, 2022
Very good book on the mental aspect of how we react to markets. The description of each market event is a bit more in depth than needed, but how our minds work during the market moves is spot on. A lot to learn on how we think through market movement and the author does well in this book.
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