The Money Game

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Identities are supposed to come from occupations. If the occupation is money-making then anxiety must always be present, because there is always a threat the money which represents the achievement can be taken away. Anyone whose orientation is toward where the action is, where the happenings happen, should buy a copy of The Money Game and read it with due diligence.”— Book World The author is rather personable and observant, yet another player on Wall Street, successful, but no one that will be remembered. He starts of rather light-heartedly, describing all the follies and personalities. I did like the mysticism of the end of the book. If read like a novel, and not as a finance book, character development can be well traced here. First, entertainment of the game, trade. After he’s been at it for a while, he starts to muse on the subject of what money actually is, and what is it all for. A logical development for an observant man. None of the questions are resolved at the end, so you will not get much other than entertainment from the book, and perhaps some motivation to read about the Godfather of it all, Lord Keynes. If those systems, actually worked — could always predict what everybody else was doing — everyone would use it, and it would stop working.

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Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: it is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.”— Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1896 The Money Game” works the same way, but within the logic of Wall Street. “Yes,” it says, “money is a game, played by the rich and for the rich, and that’s as it should be.” ‘Adam Smith,’ the pseudonymous author, does a likeable job of pointing out the silliness of certain financial types (the amateur investor, the idiot expert, etc.) and teasing the financial powers that be, but this is all coming from a man who makes his money on Wall Street, who is inherently of the system he’s commenting on. His newspaper column, on which the book was based, apparently made a grand stir among financiers when it was published in the 1960’s – but it only made that stir because the financiers read it, because it stayed inside their world. the end object of investment is serenity, and serenity can only be achieved by the avoidance of anxiety, and to avoid anxiety you have to know who you are and what you’re doing.” the prices seem to go up to about 50p, but there is no 20p coin - you have to pay in 1p, 2p, 5p and Many people choose to play the game as described by Keynes’s beauty contest: “We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be.” So all kinds of systems have sprung up to figure out what is everybody else doing? Really, they’re finding out, what has everybody else done but never solving, what will everybody else do.These fun money games for kids can help children to understand the value of UK coins, how to count money and work out change. They also include problem solving money activities. You have to know yourself. You have to be observant and honest and learn from mistakes. The decisions made around investing paint a portrait of who we are — biases and all. It’s better to figure it out, learn from it, and use it to our advantage, then to ignore it, fight against it, and fail. No matter what role the investor has started with, in a climax on one side or the other the role melts into the crowd role of greed or fear. The only real protection against all the vagaries of identity-playing, and against the final role of being part of the crowd when it stampedes, is to have an identity so firm it is not influenced by all the brouhaha in the marketplace.” The mass psychology has a way of taking hold of every new generation of investors because they’re too young to remember to any bad times and they’re undefeated in the current market. So they fall in love with “the New Math, the New Economics, and the New Market.”

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Chapter 15: Professional investors are “performance” managers who are focused on driving results in the short term. Very few “performance” managers think in the long term. It’s all about driving big capital gains! This book was written in the 1960s so brokers are mostly a dying breed but the overall concept hasn’t changed. By the time an individual investor knows of that hot tip it has been sold by those professionals and we’re left holding the proverbial bag. The concepts are clear although the uotdated prose sometimes make it harder to understand fully what the underlying meaning is.Why do they play the game? For many different reasons: the action, the image it presents, the sense of belonging (being in a crowd), being on the “inside”, the stories to brag to friends and strangers, basically, so they can say they play the game. As the book alludes to, I am the small investor who is the loveable fool that can’t beat the market. And as the lovable fool, I bow down to all the smart professional money managers that “know what they are doing.” What I can hope to immolate with my passive investment approach is the Prudent Man who over the long time horizon proves that the first rule of making money is not to lose it!

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Chapter 4: Since 80% of the market is psychology or deeper still human emotionality, the market can really be seen as a crowd. Because of this tendency, there is no substitute for good information, good research, and good ideas. Anyone whose orientation is toward where the action is, where the happenings happen, should buy a copy of The Money Game and read it with due diligence." — Book World Re-reading the book cover, to cover the brilliance of the chapter What Are They In It For? strikes me again. “Ninety percent of the people in the market don ́t care about making money”. The term “people” might also have been exchanged from meaning individuals investing own money to civil servants within mutual fund houses. But the importance of being part of what’s going on, being there and knowing things, supersedes the making money part, at least correctly defined. These fantastic free printable money resources will enable you to make games, worksheets and resources to helpAll the participants play the game differently. They make up their own set of rules and have a different definition of winning. And they often change the rules and the definition multiple times depending on how well they’re playing.

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I found a number of the narratives amusing. There is certainly truth in sarcasm particularly the need to separate your identity from money. If you look at the markets as a game, especially since these markets take on a mob mentality, then you are more likely to be able to remove yourself and very importantly your self worth from it. Chapter 19: Sooner or later you have to come to reality, and stop being a father to the world. Lead it, yes. Buy it. No. Irregular Rule #3: “Find smart people.” Phil Fisher, the creator of the scuttlebutt approach, looked at his past successes to find that only one-sixth of them were found through scuttlebutt. The five-sixth, the rest, were from a network of smart people he knew and trusted. The downside: groupthink. There has always been a They in markets, which Smith refers to as elephants, that move markets at a whim. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Money Game, How to Play It: A New Instrument of Economic Education is both a book and a game. Sir Norman Angell was a noted pacifist and peace activist, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. He designed The Money Game to teach young people about financial systems and economic theory. This copy is in excellent condition, with all pieces. A first edition of the game from 1928, with all cards present and unmarked.Through a series of chapters asking questions and describing real events and real characters (real but masked), George J. W. Goodman sets out to explore the unexplored area of the markets … the emotional area. As he states very eloquently in Chapter 2, “There are fundamentals in the marketplace, but the unexplored area is the emotional area. All charts and breadth indicators and technical palaver are the statistician’s attempts to describe an emotional state. Markets are only a tiny facet of society, but being made by mass psychology, they are a good litmus paper for what is going on. Markets only work when they believe, and this confidence is based on the idea that men can manage their affairs rationally. The longest period of prosperity in the last few hundred years came when everyone believed that the king was on the throne, that the pound was worth a pound, that God was in His Heaven, and that all these things would continue for ever and ever… In the longer run, the actions of all the investors, individual and institutional, professional and nonprofessional, have to be based on the belief that leadership knows what it is doing and that rational men are handling the nation’s business rationally. If that belief fades, then so do the markets. They do not merely dive, they dive and then they disappear. It happened here in the blight of the spirit from 1930 to 1933, and it has happened in other countries.”