The Psychology of the Foreign Exchange MarketThis book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that the assumption that the foreign exchange market is purely economic and rational has to be replaced by a more complex market psychology. |
Contents
1 From Rational DecisionMakers to a Psychology of the Foreign Exchange Market | 1 |
2 Psychology of Trading Decisions | 21 |
3 RiskTaking in Trading Decisions | 71 |
4 Expectations in the Foreign Exchange Market | 89 |
5 News and Rumors | 125 |
6 Personality Psychology of Traders | 149 |
7 Surfing the Market on Metaphors | 167 |
8 The Foreign Exchange MarketA Psychological Construct | 195 |
9 The Basics | 207 |
Appendix The European and the North American Survey | 225 |
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Common terms and phrases
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