Comments on: Boston Notebook http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/10/28/boston-notebook/ Hedge funds, portable alpha, 130/30 and alpha-centric investing Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Denise Shull M.A. http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/10/28/boston-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-140394 Denise Shull M.A. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:09:13 +0000 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=3629#comment-140394 "Lo went on to say that research in the past decade shows that rationality and emotion are not as dichotomous as we might assume. In fact, he says that we need to be able to feel emotion in order to be “logical”. In other words, emotion and logic are two sides of the same coin. " Hallelujah! Someone with more academic cred than I have says the same thing that Trader Psyches teaches. Who cares how emotional you are? It is only the action you take that matter. One of our credos of Psychological Capital = "The quickest way to get rational is to be emotional." Check out Seo and Barrett 2007 - http://www2.bc.edu/~barretli/pubs/2007/seobarrett2007.pdf “Lo went on to say that research in the past decade shows that rationality and emotion are not as dichotomous as we might assume. In fact, he says that we need to be able to feel emotion in order to be “logical”. In other words, emotion and logic are two sides of the same coin. ”

Hallelujah! Someone with more academic cred than I have says the same thing that Trader Psyches teaches. Who cares how emotional you are? It is only the action you take that matter. One of our credos of Psychological Capital = “The quickest way to get rational is to be emotional.”

Check out Seo and Barrett 2007 – http://www2.bc.edu/~barretli/pubs/2007/seobarrett2007.pdf

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