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Investor Skills Training: Managing Emotions and Risk in the Market

Item Number:  3600
Date Published:  2004
Publisher:  Traders Press, Inc.
Number of Pages / Length:  203 Pages
Format:  Hardcover
Shipping Availability:  Usually ships within 24 hours.

Price:   24.95

Author(s):

Dr. Rob Ronin

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Dr. Rob Ronin is a Registered Financial Consultant and clinical psychologist who provides educational-consulting services to individuals and groups who wish to reduce the emotional and strategic mistakes that often accompany investing. He offers informative and entertaining workshops based upon the educational program that he developed, Investor Skills Training (IST). IST is designed to help investors acquire specific skills to make informed decisions and to knowledgeably select financial professionals with whom to work.

In addition to helping investors, Dr. Ronin also offers individual and group consultation to financial professionals, aiding them in coping with the stress caused by volatile markets, and helping them develop strong relationship-building skills with clients.

Dr. Ronin is a member of the American Association of Individual Investors and the National Association of Online Investors.

Visit www.Dr.Ronin.com for a full description of the professional services that Dr. Ronin offers.


Synopsis:

Investor Skills Training: Managing Emotions and Risk in the Market provides essential tools for helping investors control the emotions that interfere with making money. The Midwest Review of Books gave Investor Skills Training, their highest 5-star rating on Amazon.com, and described the book as “an essential and mandatory” resource for anyone who invests in the stock market. Publishers Weekly reported that Investor Skills Training, “Presents a step-by-step plan for protecting existing capital while describing the skills that are needed to make more.”

Description:

More than 78 million people in the United States own stocks or mutual funds. Most of those individuals lost significant sums of money in the Bear market that ushered in the new millennium. More than ever, investors need guidance in making productive decisions. Investor Skills Training: Managing Emotions and Risk in the Makret provides you with a step-by-step plan for protecting existing capital while also describing the skills that are needed to make more.

Written by Dr. Rob A. Ronin – a Registered Financial Consultant and clinical psychologist, offering a unique perspective – the book demonstrates how to manage risk and strong emotions when making investing decisions.

Many individuals have learned the hard way that they have overestimated their investing skills or those of their advisors. The new millennium has shown all too clearly that weak or flat markets require sharp skills – emotions and financial – if investors are to survive and thrive.

Here, you will learn to:

  • Identify strong markets, business sectors, and stocks
  • Harness negative thoughts and feelings when making investing decisions
  • Realistically determine the time and energy that is required to manage a personal investment portfolio
  • Cultivate a successful relationship with a financial professional

Now you can discover how to apply strategic and psychological skills to become a successful investor.

Investing in the stock market presents almost unlimited opportunities for smart people to make foolish mistakes. Investor Skills Training helps readers avoid these errors by providing an organized, streamlined tutorial explaining how to manage risk and emotions when buying stocks and mutual funds.

Readers are taught skills for objectively identifying strength at all levels of the market: major indices, business sectors, and individual stocks. In addition, Investor Skills Training explains how to manage the strong emotions that often sabotage investing decisions. Negative emotions create a reality of feelings rather than facts, often leading to monumental mistakes even for individuals who know a great deal about technical investing. says author Rob A. Ronin, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist and Registered Financial Consultant.

All too often it takes a sizable loss - whether in money or opportunity - before individuals realize that they have overestimated their investing abilities, or those of trusted advisors. The raging Bull market of the 1990s was strong enough to reward the skilled and lucky alike, but the new millennium has shown that weak or flat markets demand essential skills if investors are to survive with their financial and emotional health intact.

Investor Skills Training outlines a program that helps the reader uncover his or her unique investor identity, acquire screening skills to differentiate strong stocks and mutual funds from weak ones, and realistically estimate the time and energy that is required for managing a personal portfolio. If time and energy are in short supply as they are for most busy investors, Dr. Ronin explains how to initiate and maintain a successful relationship with a financial professional, who can help to achieve long-term goals.

Further chapters explain how to recognize the negative emotions that can lead to costly mistakes. Readers are taught to identify the thinking traps that directly sabotage investing decisions, and to avoid these pitfalls by implementing specific techniques.

The ability to manage risk and emotions is the key to stock market prosperity. This book unlocks the door and invites the reader on a journey to investing success.

Read the Forward by Thomas Dorsey

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Overview of Investor Skills Training
  • Chapter 2: Defining Your Investor Identity
  • Chapter 3: Acquiring Screening Skills
  • Chapter 4: Performing a Resource Appraisal of Time, Energy, and Interest
  • Chapter 5: Managing the Relationships with Your Financial Professional
  • Chapter 6: The Impact of Negative Emotions on Investing Decisions
  • Chapter 7: Identifying Cognitive Traps
  • Chapter 8: Applying Cognitive Management Techniques
  • Chapter 9: Putting It All Together
  • Recommended Reading
  • Appendix: Helpful Internet Resources
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • About the Author

Reader's Comments:

“Finally a guide to help you hone your investing skills and keep your emotions under control while making financial decisions. I hope every investor reads Investor Skills Training and absorbs Dr. Ronin’s wealth of knowledge using it to build financial security.”---Ginith Wall, CPA CFP
Director of the Women’s Institute for Financial Education

“Investor Skill Training does a beautiful job of helping investors overcome extremely costly, psychological mind blocks, while also providing readers with a solid set of basic investing skills.“---Tom Dorsey
Author of Point and Figure Charting
President of Dorsey, Wright & Associates

“Investor Skills Training is a remarkable tool for helping you integrate investing and psychological skills, enabling you to make confident decisions. Dr. Ronin peels back the layers of personal investing to illuminate how to avoid financial mistakes. It is a must-read!”---Maryann Rosenthal, Ph.D., Clinical and Consulting Psychologist,
Author of Be a Parent, Not a Pushover

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