In most people’s understanding, trading is a game of judgment and experience. But in Daniel Whitmore’s view— trading is redefined as a cognitive engineering discipline that can be trained and replicated. He grew up in a family background shaped by economics and psychology. From cognitive psychology at UC Berkeley to a PhD in behavioral finance at the University of Chicago, he later joined Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as a strategy consultant, focusing for many years on one central question: how people make decisions under uncertainty. During the 2008 financial crisis, he applied behavioral models to risk control and recovery...
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