"Traditional thinking about investment has been thrown on its head in the wake of the financial crisis. Many investors no longer accept the idea that diversification reduces risk and the stock market provides the best long-term returns. With global markets increasingly interlinked, markets tend...

"In Far from Random, Lehman uses behavior-based trend analysis to debunk Malkiel's random walk theory. He demonstrates that the market has discernible trends that are foreseeable using trend channel analysis, a form of technical analysis. By learning to spot these trends, investors and traders...