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Author Anderson, Gary Edwin, 1942-

Title The Janus factor : trend followers' guide to market dialectics / Gary Edwin Anderson
Published Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 170 pages) : illustrations
Series Bloomberg financial series
Bloomberg financial series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Foundations -- Serendipity -- Data Set -- Reasons and Causes -- Befuddled -- Which Way Is Up? -- ch. 2 Assignment -- Measuring Risk: Offense and Defense -- Picturing Offense and Defense -- Benchmark Equivalence Line (BEL) -- Trend of Relative Performance -- ch. 3 Feedback and Capital Flow -- Feedback -- Feedback and Capital Flow -- Calculating Relative Strength -- Relative Strength Spread -- Trend Followers and Contrarians -- ch. 4 Janus Factor -- Structure and Entropy -- Confidence -- Is the Market Predictable? -- Balancing Acts and Paradigm Shirts -- ch. 5 Seasons of Success -- Venturi Effect -- Relative Strength Spread and the Performance Spread -- Group Studies -- ch. 6 Why Jesse Went Broke -- Cotton King -- 1911-1914 -- Final Years -- ch. 7 Sheep Dogs and Other Contrarians -- Sheep Dog Effect -- Contrarian Hedge? -- Contrarian Rebound -- Contrarian Collapse -- ch. 8 Situational Awareness -- Bielema's Choice -- Bet -- Let Us Calculate! -- ch. 9 Direction of Momentum -- Relative Momentum -- Relative Momentum versus Relative Strength -- ch. 10 Long Strategies -- Critical Moving Average -- DOM Strategy -- Contrarian Threats -- Defensive Long Strategy -- It's a Bull Market, You Know -- ch. 11 Complete Strategy -- Combined Long and Short Strategies -- Model Portfolio -- Execution
Summary Tap into feedback loops to unravel market trends and discover profitable trading opportunities The Janus Factor presents an innovative theory that describes how feedback loops determine market behavior. The book clearly shows how the theory can be applied to make trading more profitable. The metaphor of the two-faced god Janus is used to reflect alternating market environments, one dominated by trend followers and the other by contrarian bargain hunters. In this book, author Gary Anderson puts forth a systematic view of how positive and negative feedback drive capital flows i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Speculation.
Investment analysis.
Investments.
Business enterprises -- Finance.
Corporations -- Finance.
Investments
speculating.
portfolios (financial records)
Corporations -- Finance
Business enterprises -- Finance
Investment analysis
Investments
Speculation
Form Electronic book
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