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Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1 From Rational Decision-Makers to a Psychology of the Foreign Exchange Market.

Traditional vs. behavioral finance: A paradigmatic shift in approaching financial markets.

Economic defense of the efficient market view.

Traders’ views of rationality in the foreign exchange market.

Toward a market psychology.

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2 Psychology of Trading Decisions.

Trading decisions: The view of traders.

Excursion: Understanding decision-making in financial markets.

From objective prices to psychological theories of decision-making.

Normative–economic and descriptive–psychological approaches.

Social herding dynamics.

Herding and psychological conformity.

Herding dynamics in the foreign exchange market.

Affects.

Status quo tendency.

Overconfidence.

Trading intuition: Bridging affects and cognitions.

Cognitions.

Heuristics.

Representativeness.

Availability.

Anchoring and adjustment.

Hindsight bias.

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3. Risk-Taking in Trading Decisions.

Asymmetric risk-taking.

Framing and mental accounting.

Managing trading risk: Institutional and personal strategies.

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4 Expectations in the Foreign Exchange Market.

Expectations: A market time machine.

Fundamental and technical/chartist analysis.

Psychological attitudes and market expectations.

Social dynamics, meta-expectations, and the financial news Media.

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5 News and Rumors.

Characteristics of important information.

From news sources to information loops.

Information sources of foreign exchange traders.

Information sources of financial journalists.

Implications for collective market information-processing.

Reporting trends and interdependency.

Market rumors.

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6 Personality Psychology of Traders.

The role of personality in trading.

What makes successful traders?

Disciplined cooperation.

Tackling decisions.

Market meaning-making.

Emotional stability.

Information-processing.

Interested integrity.

Autonomous organization.

Information handling.

Market applications.

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7 Surfing the Market on Metaphors.

Main market metaphors.

The foreign exchange market as a bazaar.

The foreign exchange market as a machine.

The foreign exchange market as a living being.

The foreign exchange market as gambling.

The foreign exchange market as sports.

The foreign exchange market as war.

The foreign exchange market as an ocean.

Metaphors shape market perspectives.

Market metaphors are about the psychological “other”.

Market metaphors are about market predictability.

Explicit and implicit metaphors of the foreign exchange market.

Market metaphors in action.

What we can learn from market metaphors.

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8 The Foreign Exchange Market—A Psychological Construct.

The market as a construct and illusion.

Market constructs change.

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9 The Basics.

Function and scope of the market.

Instruments.

Trading.

Dealing room structure.

Market players.

Commercial and investment banks.

Central banks.

Brokers.

Investment companies, pension funds, and hedge funds.

Corporations and multinational companies.

Individuals.

Global financial news agencies.

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Appendix: The European and the North American Survey.

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References.

Index.

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