Scott’s latest book, “The Anxious Investor — Mastering the Mental Game of Investing” offers a fascinating look at the behavioral biases that keep you from achieving your investing goals.
About Scott
Scott is the author of “The Anxious Investor” as well as “A History of the United States in Five Crashes.”
Scott is also the president of Nations Indexes, Inc., the world’s leading independent developer of volatility indexes and option strategy indexes.
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About The Book
The Anxious Investor
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The Anxious Investor — Mastering the Mental Game of Investing
by Scott Nations
A revelatory new guide to building wealth amidst stock market crashes and uncertain economic conditions, drawing upon financial modeling, behavioral psychology, and market history to offer practical advice to everyday investors.
Investing is scary. Never is that more true than during market pullbacks and recessions, whether the Great Recession of 2008; the brief, vertiginous COVID crash in 2020; or any number of recent smaller, yet still wrenching, periods of economic turbulence. We see those flashing red numbers and all semblance of “planning” or “risk tolerance” suddenly goes out the window.
Scott Nations has spent his career studying market volatility. His firm, Nations Indexes, is the world’s leading independent developer of volatility and option-enhanced indexes. In The Anxious Investor, he teaches readers how to understand the markets, master their own fear, and make the most of their money.
In the first half of the book, Nations offers a quick, compelling rundown of the worst financial crashes in American history, focusing on their causes, the recovery, and the lessons each holds for today’s investors. In the book’s second section, Nations offers a roadmap that any investor can follow, with practical, easy-to-understand advice to help guide readers through the 3 different types of market conditions: normal, crash/bear market, and recovery.
Reviews of The Anxious Investor
“Nations’s advice is grounded and practical, and the wealth of research backing it will leave readers feeling like they’re in good hands. New and seasoned investors alike will find this worth a look.”
“It’s a key guide to financial literacy.”
“‘The Anxious Investor’ weaves the latest behavioral finance studies into an engaging narrative history that probes investor behavior during the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the tech boom of the late 1990s and the financial crisis of 2008.”
A History of the United States in Five Crashes
Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
by Scott Nations
In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.
The five crashes: The Panic of 1907 · Black Tuesday (1929) · Black Monday (1987) · The Great Recession (2008) · The Flash Crash (2010)
Each of these financial implosions that caused a catastrophic drop in the American stock market is a remarkable story in its own right. But taken together, they offer a unique financial history of the American century. Nations examines these precipitous dips, revealing how each played a role in America’s political and cultural fabric, one building upon the next to create the nation we know today.
Nations clearly and compellingly illustrates the connections between these financial collapses and examines the solid, clear-cut lessons they offer for preventing the next one.
Five Crashes
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Reviews of A History of the United States in Five Crashes
“Timely. … An eye-opening examination of the many ways money can be made — and disappear.”
“Fascinating. … Uniquely helpful.”
“Nations insightfully relays the parallel experiences of stock market meltdowns, the events that led up to them, and their resulting economic and social ramifications.”
“Absorbing. …Nations’s stylish writing gives these stories of greed and fear a cliffhanger momentum.”
“Crisp profiles… all in a lean, drive-ahead writing style that is a pleasure to read.”
“An incredibly rich mine of market history… an indispensable resource.”
“One of the 25 best stock market audiobooks of all time.”
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