Panic grips the markets, spreading outward from one global capital and then back inward in a spiraling oscillation of fear and greed and fear again that roams from New York to London to Germany to Japan and back to New York again, whether through Moscow or Calgary or Milan.
Investor sentiment swings back and forth between greed and fear like a pendulum.
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Themes might include greed, fear, the absence of a conscience and even, illiteracy.
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He is a nester, who tends toward savings and does better at balancing the extremes of greed and fear.
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Our approach is to watch for and take advantage of opportunities as greed and fear cause market prices to deviate from intrinsic value.
For example, gurus who make frequent public pronouncements may be those most prone to extreme forecasts to attract attention (and customers) by stimulating greed and fear.
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He is at his best when evoking the greed, fear and outright paranoia of the first great age of proprietary-trading desks (which bet big with their bank's own capital).
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This is an additional layer of market information...markets are driven by greed and fear, so if you can understand fear and quantify it in real-time, you could use that to protect yourself.
The size of the market awakens our greed but fear also comes into play because experience tells us that many, perhaps most, of these drugs will look like dry wells from the perspective of five years hence.
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Greed versus fear, this is the investor mentality, investors either want to be in the next hot thing or they are terrified that they are not going to be in the next hot thing and investing, getting people to invest is a very emotional process.
Dines believes that fear and greed alternately prevail in markets, with the balance currently tipped heavily toward fear, which, he says, will continue to drive gold higher as investors seek safety amid weakness in stocks and the dollar.
Loyalty can bring just as good results as fear or greed, and probably more sustainable growth.
Emotional beings decide by impulse, fueled by anxiety, anger, fear, greed, and other emotions.
Emotional beings decide by impulse rather than reason, fueled by anxiety, anger, fear, greed, complacency, etc.
Their collective sentiments of fear and greed could drive more wild swings in the months to come.
Fear and greed, which originate from two of our most primal instincts, fight or flight, are the culprits.
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Like many things driven by human nature, venture-backed biotech boardrooms often swing between the emotions of fear and greed.
The emotions of fear and greed are the first to be picked apart.
Their collective sentiments of fear and greed could drive more wild swings in months to come (see story, p. 180).
That was true until fear overtook greed as the primary factor in the investment decision in the last two years.
The question becomes, what can we agree is the more motivating condition for investor psychology right at this moment, Fear or Greed?
However, you are still vulnerable to scams which rely on greed, carelessness or fear to get you to open suspicious links in email.
The market will always exhibit a pendulum type movement, alternating between gains and losses, simply due to fear, greed, and the financial unknown.
But, as executives shift from fear to greed mode, they need to be as cleared-eye as Buffett in the strategies that they pursue.
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It is just indicative of the need all human beings have to be accepted, which we deny ourselves and others through fear and greed etc.
One of its most important attributes is that it avoids the problem that most often harms performance, the intrusion of the emotions of fear or greed.
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Raising exactly what you expect to need to do the right set of value-creating steps (no more, no less) is a tricky balance between fear and greed.
During recoveries of past recessions, concerns were about market dynamics created by the usual suspects: inflation, global trade, supply and demand, technology disruptions, fear and greed, etc.
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Fear and greed are universal emotions that seem genetically encoded.
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