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Market Sense 市场意识: October 2012
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Monday 22 October 2012

全球股市大崩盘将重演


全球股市大崩盘将重演
BWCHINESE中文网 2012-10-22

准备好迎接新一轮的股市崩溃吧!需要注意的是,新一轮的股灾,规模和破坏力丝毫不亚于1987年10月发生的股市大崩盘。

1987年10月19日,“黑色星期一”,纽约股市在这一天惊人下跌。道琼斯工业股票价格平均指数跌去508点,跌幅达22.6%,相当于目前的道琼斯指数一天之内下跌3200点。当天跌去的总市值——5600亿美元,令人目瞪口呆。混乱中,6亿股股票被抛售。

据美国媒体报道,这一天也成了全球股民的黑色记忆。纽约股市暴跌迅速引起西方主要国家股市崩盘。敦富时指数跌10.8%,创下英股单日最大跌幅;日经指数两日累跌16.90%;香港恒生指数跌11.2%。巴西、墨西哥股市更暴跌20%以上。



准备好迎接新一轮的股市崩溃吧!需要注意的是,新一轮的股灾,规模和破坏力丝毫不亚于1987年10月发生的股市大崩盘。

据国外媒体报道,如今,如此惨重的股市灾难即将再次发生,这样的前景确实令人畏惧。试想一下,如果道琼斯指数突然在一个交易日内狂跌3000点,结果会怎样?

如果说我们认为当前正在进行的监管改革能够避免新灾难的话,那么,毫无疑问,我们是在自欺欺人。

早在十年前,美国纽约大学的金融学教授Xavier Gabaix,就曾和波士顿大学研究中心的三位科学家联合做了一项名为“股票市场活动大波动理论”的研究。这些年来,Gabaix一直在进行后续的跟踪研究。上周,在接受电话采访时,他指出,最初的研究结果变得更有说服力。

据了解,四位权威人士得出一种复杂的数学公式,并且通过这一公式来预测股市大型波动行为的频率。一系列的数据证明,他们的数学公式并非只是停留在理论上的“绣花枕头”。通过计算,他们发现,不仅仅是美国股市上个世纪的波动紧密依附着数学公式,全球股市也是如此。

拿单个交易日跌幅在20%以上为例。数学公式表明,一般来说,这样的暴跌每隔104年会出现一次,但是,有时,它也可能在任何时间段内发生。这也是为什么你要随时准备着迎接股价暴跌的主要原因。换言之,没有人知道股市会在什么时候突然狂跌。

如果股市波动的频率具有可预测性,那么,是不是就意味着这样的波动也具有可避免性?

Gabaix的答案是“不”!

Gabaix表示,在投资领域,股市崩溃具有不可避免的特性。原因在于,每个市场,都要受到大型投资者的支配,只是程度大小不同而已。当那些大型投资者集体想要远离股市时,灾难就必然会发生。

对此,Gabaix给出的建议是,不管是散户投资者,还是机构投资者,一定要分配好自己的投资组合,以便让类似1987年的股市崩盘不会催生出致命后果。然而,不幸的是,对于绝大多数的投资者而言,说起来容易,做起来难!

据报道,就目前而言,一些大型投资者已然不看好美国股市。有分析指出,宁可在俄罗斯投资也不投资美国股票市场,理由是2013和2014年美国将出现经济问题,该国的政治家们不是会增税就是要搞砸某些事情,而增税从未让经济增长。

当前,金融监管者们正在试图通过一系列的监管改革来避免股市大幅度的下跌。但是,糟糕的是,改革举措并没有给股市投资者带来安全感。

类似1987年的股市灾难即将发生,请做好准备!

实习编辑:Judy Wang


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Publish date: 22/10/12

Thursday 18 October 2012

7 Ways Your Brain Is Making You Lose Money

http://www.businessinsider.com/ways-your-brain-makes-you-lose-money-2012-10?op=1


"Investors are 'normal,' not rational," says Meir Statman, one of the leading thinkers in behavioral finance.
Behavioral finance aims to better understand why people make the financial decisions they do.  And it's a booming field of study.  Top behavioral finance gurus include Yale's Robert Shiller and GMO's James Montier.
It's also a crucial part of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) curriculum, a course of study for financial advisors and Wall Street's research analysts.
We compiled a list of the seven most common behavioral biases.  Read through them, and you'll quickly realize why you make such terrible financial decisions

1. Your brain thinks it's great at investing
Overconfidence may be the most obvious behavioral finance concept.  This is when you place too much confidence in your ability to predict the outcomes of your investment decisions.
Overconfident investors are often underdiversified and thus more susceptible to volatility.

2. Your brain doesn't know how to handle new information.
Anchoring is related to overconfidence.  For example, you make your initial investment decision based on the information available to you at the time.  Later, you get news that materially affects any forecasts you initially made.  But rather than conduct new analysis, you just revise your old analysis.
Because you are anchored, your revised analysis won't fully reflect the new information.

3. Your brain is too focused on the past.
A company might announce a string of great quarterly earnings.  As a result, you assume the next earnings announcement will probably be great too. This error falls under a broad  behavioral finance concept called representativeness: you incorrectly think one thing means something else.
Another example of representativeness is assuming a good company is a good stock.

4. Your brain doesn't like to lose.
Loss aversion, or the reluctance to accept a loss, can be deadly.  For example, one of your investments may be down 20% for good reason.  The best decision may be to just book the loss and move on.  However, you can't help but think that the stock might comeback.
This latter thinking is dangerous because it often results in you increasing your position in the money losing investment.  This behavior is similar to the gambler who makes a series of larger bets in hopes of breaking even.

5. Your brain remembers everything.
How you trade in the future is often affected by the outcomes of your previous trades.  For example, you may have sold a stock at a 20% gain, only to watch the stock continue to rise after your sale.  And you think to yourself, "If only I had waited."  Or perhaps one of your investments fall in value, and you dwell on the time when you could've sold it while in the money.  These all lead to unpleasant feelings of regret.
Regret minimization occurs when you avoid investing altogether or invests conservatively because you don't want to feel that regret.

6. Your brain likes to go with the trends.
Your ability to tolerate risk should be determined by your personal financial circumstances, your investment time horizon, and the size of an investment in the context of your portfolio.  Frame dependence is a concept that refers to the tendency to change risk tolerance based on the direction of the market.  For example, your willingness to tolerate risk may fall when markets are falling.  Alternatively, your risk tolerance may rise when markets are rising.
This often causes the investor to buy high and sell low.

7. Your brain is great at coming up with excuses.
Sometimes your investments might go sour. Of course, it's not your fault, right? Defense mechanisms in the form of excuses are related to overconfidence. Here are some common excuses:
'if-only': If only that one thing hadn't happened, then I would've been right. Unfortunately, you can't prove the counter-factual.
'almost right': But sometimes, being close isn't good enough.
'it hasn't happened yet': Unfortunately, "markets can remain irrational longer than you and I can remain solvent."
'single predictor': Just because you were wrong about one thing doesn't mean you're going to be wrong about everything else, right?
'dog ate my research'**

Source: CFA Institute


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ways-your-brain-makes-you-lose-money-2012-10?op=1#ixzz29bOFbeDv