Jan. 16, 2019

Practical Behavioral Finance with David Keller - Episode 70

Practical Behavioral Finance with David Keller - Episode 70

Closing the gap between academic and practical finance is the focus of our conversation today, our guest on this episode is David Keller, president and chief strategist of Sierra Alpha Research LLC, Former Fidelity and Bloomberg, and former president...

Closing the gap between academic and practical finance is the focus of our conversation today, our guest on this episode is David Keller, president and chief strategist of Sierra Alpha Research LLC, Former Fidelity and Bloomberg, and former president of CMT Association. David manages to combine the strengths of technical analysis, behavioral finance, and data visualization to identify investment opportunities for active investors and enrich relationships between advisors and clients.

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Show Notes

  • David's background - 0:33
  • Making good decisions - 2:28
  • What's behavioral finance? - 4:52
  • Benefits of diversification - 7:00
  • Focusing on your goal - 8:32
  • Teaching  market awareness - 10:29
  • What is situation awareness? - 11:47
  • Industry’s lessons - 15:07
  • Understanding Sierra Alpha's work - 16:24
  • Differences between technical analysis and value of investing - 18:14
  • What is value   - 20:57
  • Understanding volatility on this industry - 23:12
  • Mistakes that investors make - 23:53
  • Educate yourself - 25:37
  • Mitigating risk through technical analysis- 28:50
  • Best opportunity of 2019 - 31:44
  • What is private equity? - 39:10
  • Trump's effect - 40:18
  • Book recommendation: The Behavioral Investor - 42:26
  • Get in touch with David - 43:45

 

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