Stock Market Message Boards Psychosis
By Paul Stevens
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This brief essay explores the inherent dangers of stock market message boards. Investors develop a form of psychosis becoming delusional and run the risk of suffering significant capital losses.
Paul Stevens
There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.
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Stock Market Message Boards Psychosis - Paul Stevens
Stock Market Message Boards Psychosis
All Rights Reserved © 2015 Paul Stevens
Steve’s Essays
Smashwords Edition
Intro – What is Psychosis? – Stock Market Message Boards – Cheerleaders – Don’t Feed The Trolls
– High Dividend Yields - Fallout
Also By This Author
Intro
This article is a follow on to my article "The 7 Deadly Stock Market Sins" which I would recommend to anyone who is interested in saving a ton of money during their lifetime. Else, as sure as fate, you are going to make some or all of the same mistakes as I did.
What is Psychosis?
Now, are we clear what psychosis
actually is?
Well, we both probably have a fairly broad idea of what it means but let’s pin it down accurately. Wikipedia, inter alia defines psychosis as:
An abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a
loss of contact with reality". People with psychosis are described as psychotic. People experiencing psychosis may exhibit some personality changes and thought disorder. Depending on its severity, this may be accompanied by unusual or bizarre behavior, as well as difficulty with social interaction and impairment in carrying out daily life activities.
Psychosis is