Beast on Wall Street: How Stock Volatility Devours Our Wealth

PART I: THE SEVEN MYSTERIES OF THE STOCK MARKET 1. Stock Prices Are Too Volatile 2. Stock Volatility is Too Unstable 3. Noise in the Market - Silence on the Street 4. The Silence After the Closing Bell 5. Going Global Extends the Length of Your Trading Day and the Risk of Your Stock 6. The Case of Vanishing Volatility 7. Stocks Selling Cheap - Strange Behavior of Closed-End Investment Companies PART II: NINETEEN-THIRTY Fat Cats. The Eastern Express. Bullets. What's This Truman Loomin'? Premonition of Doom. Tower of Power. Operation Poison Pill. Bad Fellow Bellow. Epilogue. PART III: SOLUTIONS Synthesis. Implications. Final Words.