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How To Overcome Market Fear

26 April 2010
In this week’s episode:

David Kuo looks at why some people are afraid of investing in the stock market with the help of Barbara McLaughlin, the founder of Training for Greatness. The two ponder the differences between fear, anxiety, concern, worry and distress. They also delve into Neuro Linguistic Programming as a method of helping some people overcome their irrational fears. Listen for Barbara's self-help techniques to help conquer fear. A transcript of this podcast is also available.

Barbara McLaughlin & David Kuo
Barbara McLaughlin & David Kuo

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MarkFuelle 27 Apr 2010 , 11:43am

Some good points from Barbara but the fear she talks about would seem to be more relevant to the private small investor who is usually the last to know sadly. The big selling or buying happens before the poor old PI can get a grip on things. But to say you buy when fear grips the market should perhaps be ' buy when the market, the media and the cabbies are all totally gripped by fear - then and only the is it safe to buy'. When we were reading about 'armageddon and financial meltdown Goldman et al were filling their pockets in March 09. The volumes of buying around that time were over 2bn to 2.5bn on the NYSE and it's usually around 1 to 1.5gb. They knew when to buy and THAT is the time for us poor saps to buy...psychology doesn't come into it. Just watch the big boys and buy when they do...

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