TY - BOOK AU - Stoken,Dick A. TI - Survival of the fittest for investors: using Darwin's laws of evolution to build a winning portfolio SN - 9780071782289 (alk. paper) AV - HG4521 .S789 2012 U1 - 332.6 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Investments KW - Investment analysis KW - Economic forecasting N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: The origin of a new investment strategy • The Investment game • The Investment environment: an ever-changing landscape • The Darwinian alternative framework • The stock market is a living system Part II: Variation: the first important Darwinian insight • An Alternative investment Portfolio: based on variation • A passive combined asset strategy Part III: Fluctuations: the key to understanding complex adaptive systems • Trends: the central feature of our investment and economic world • A paradox in our investment and economic world Part IV: Selecting asset class "FITS" • Critical levels in the stock market • Gold and long-term treasuries: buy and replace • REIT Estate investment trust trends • An active combined asset strategy • Risk: taking on more • The twenty- first century “Real Estate” bubble Part V: A Darwinian world. • The agent role in a Darwinian world • How the major components of search engines apply in today’s world • Conclusion don’t sell evolution short N2 - Guide to the cutting-edge science of complex adaptive systems in financial markets tells you where to find and how to track the evolutionary instability underlying these markets. It shows how, with heightened insight and a powerful algorithm, you can survive and thrive in volatile markets by following the simple principles of evolution ER -