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2005-09-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Brain-damaged people make the best investors

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Posted by Jackal 2005-09-19 10:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gary Heidnick did well in the market.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-19 10:25|| 2005-09-19 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Might have a point. All the Kennedy's are rich.

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-19 10:52|| 2005-09-19 10:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn, This explains why my stock picks do poorly, not crazy enough.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-19 12:12|| 2005-09-19 12:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Brain-damaged people make the best investors
BOOYA

Posted by Jim Cramer 2005-09-19 12:15|| 2005-09-19 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey! Skidaddie! Should I buy, sell, or hold UNH?

Posted by DragonFly 2005-09-19 12:33|| 2005-09-19 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 That explains why oil is up to $70.00 a bbl this year.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-09-19 12:45|| 2005-09-19 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it is questionable whether the game used in the study has any validity in the market, where issues of risk taking are far more complex than their game.

Also, since what they are saying is that you need to take the emotion out of the investment strategy, I wonder if people on anti-depressants do better than their peers.

Posted by Penguin 2005-09-19 14:28|| 2005-09-19 14:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Real anti-depressants (seratonin re-uptake inhibitors,et al) enable those who need them to feel and think, which is what depression prevents. So I would think that depressives are screwed either way.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 20:07|| 2005-09-19 20:07|| Front Page Top

#9 I once read that the group to score highest on the psychotic axis of the MMM after bona fide psychotics was corporate CEOs. It's obvious that they didn't have any politicians in their sample.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-09-19 23:57|| 2005-09-19 23:57|| Front Page Top

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