Genre: Financial Risk


Risk Savvy

A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk.Risk-taking is essential for innovation, fun, and the courage to face the uncertainties in life. Yet for many important decisions, we’re often presented with statistics and probabilities that we don’t really understand and we inevitably rely on experts in the relevant fields – policy makers, financial advisors, doctors – to analyse and choose for us. But what if they don’t quite understand the way the information is presented either?How do we make sure we’re asking doctors the right […]


Genre: Financial Risk, Risk Psychology

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

  Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ exposes the excesses of the trading floor – but if you want to know more about the biology that drives this risky business, neuroscientist John Coates can explain it all.Shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, this startling and unconventional book from neuroscientist and former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environment, revealing how their biochemistry has a lasting and significant impact on our economy. We learn how risk stimulates the most […]


Genre: Financial Psychology, Financial Risk

Traders: Risks, Decisions, and Management in Financial Markets

  This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a book about how traders are managed – the best and the worst examples – and about the institutions they inhabit: firms, markets, cultures, and theories of how the world works. How these institutions function, how traders are managed, and how traders view the world, all have profound effects on the wider financial environment. This book explores these relationships and their implications theoretically and […]


Genre: Financial Risk

Financial Risk Taking: An Introduction to the Psychology of Trading and Behavioural Finance

  In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full–time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self–sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus […]


Genre: Financial Risk

The Mental Edge in Trading : Adapt Your Personality Traits and Control Your Emotions to Make Smarter Investments

  The Mental Edge in Trading explains the critical link between successful trading and personality traits–and it gives you the tools to use this information to make smarter trades. Dr. Williams tested proven winning traders who were managing billions of dollars to see what the great winning traders had in common, what personality traits made them so successful. The results are in this groundbreaking book that will help you become like these winning traders. His conclusions are based on hard science, the latest brain research, and the careful study of successful traders, not on psychobabble meanderings. Dr. Williams provides: A […]


Genre: Financial Risk

The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes

  With rare insight based on his first-hand commodity trading experience, Mark Douglas demonstrates why the beliefs learned to function effectively in society are often formidable psychological barriers in trading. “The Disciplined Trader” helps you join the elite few who have learned how to control their trading behaviour by developing a systematic, step-by-step approach for winning — week after week, month after month. In a comprehensive and logical manner, Mark Douglas shows you how to examine and limit your trading behaviour — how to develop the mental discipline possessed by the small minority of winners who make money consistently.Mark Douglas […]


Genre: Financial Risk, Risk Psychology

Leadership Risk: A Guide for Private Equity and Strategic Investors

  This book is a practical guide for private equity investors. It sets out a framework for understanding, assessing and managing the risks associated with senior management during the due diligence process of an acquisition. This provides an essential input into the wider due diligence review and a sound basis for managing the investment after the deal has been done so as to maximise the chances of a successful exit. The book comes at a time of significant growth in the field of private equity. In the UK over 3 million people (around 18% of all private sector employees) now […]


Genre: Financial Risk

The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos

    The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street institutions sent shock waves around the world. But this was just the beginning. Whole nations have been dragged to the brink of bankruptcy. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic have been nationalised. The stock market is out of control and the global economy is in meltdown. Financial experts and the media are clamouring to tell us that these events are unprecedented and unpredictable. But is this really true or should we all have seen it coming? The authors of ‘The Puritan Gift’ saw the writing on the wall […]


Genre: Financial Risk