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Mind Over Money

The psychology of investing has become such an important area of research that major hedge funds are building trading strategies around human behavioral patterns. In Mind Over Money, Kevin Cook explores the crossroads where markets and brains collide, delving into the two sciences – neuroscience and behavioral finance – that show why investors are often highly irrational when faced with economic decisions, uncertainty, and risk.
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Now displaying: October, 2017
Oct 25, 2017

The power of AI will take over the world with “invisible robots” making life easier, better, faster

 

(0:30) - AI and Deep Learning: Tools Not Tyrants

(6:00) - How DeepStack Uses Intuition in Poker

(14:45) - DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero Drops a Bomb

(19:30) - Psychology Meets AI: Mariano Sigman

(24:40) - The Invisible Robots Are Coming!

(35:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com

Oct 18, 2017

How engineers taught a computer to beat poker pros using its "intuition" 

(0:30) - What Is AI?

(2:00) - An Inside Look At Nvidia

(9:00) - What Not To Do In The Stock Market: Phil Hellmuth

(14:30) - Facebook and Intel's AI Partnership 

(19:00) - AI Plays Poker 

(24:00) - Creating A Computer With Intuition

(31:00) - Episode Roundup:Podcast@Zacks.com

Oct 10, 2017

After this high-profile prize in economics, investors might just be ready to admit how irrational they can be. Please pick a time stamped topic below:

(0:45) - Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman

(5:45) - Active Traders Already Accept Their Irrationality

(9:30) – Psycho-Economic Thinking for Investors

(12:00) - Richard Thaler: Nobel Praise Where It’s Due

(16:45) - Dan Ariely's Nod Before Nudge

(21:30) - Save More Tomorrow: Applying Behavioral Economics

(25:00) - What To Takeaway From Richard Thaler's Work  

(28:50) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com

 

Oct 3, 2017

In honor of the late great Let's Make a Deal host, I offer some good and fun reasons to learn more math. Please pick a time stamped topic below:

 (1:00) - What The Framers Couldn't Imagine

(7:00) - Monty Hall: The Probability Brain Buster

(12:30) - Jeff Yass: The Power Of Rational Thinking

(18:30) - Breaking Down The Probability Of The Monty Hall Problem

(24:00) - Daniel Negreanu: Probability Simulation

(28:45) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com

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