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Shenzhen Metro
|Transit type
|Rapid transit
|Number of lines
|Number of stations
|Daily ridership
2.49 million (2013 Avg.)[2]
|Annual ridership
|914 million (2012)[2]
|Shenzhen Metro
Shenzhen Metro Line 3
MTR (Shenzhen)
|Began operation
|28 December 2004
|System length
|177.0 km (110.0 mi)[4]
|Track gauge
|1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) (Standard Gauge)
|Shenzhen Metro
|Simplified Chinese
|Traditional Chinese
|Cantonese Jyutping
|Sam1zan3 Dei6tit3
|Cantonese Yale
|Sàmján Dèihtít
|Hanyu Pinyin
|Shēnzhèn Dìtiě
The Shenzhen Metro is the subway or underground system for the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, China. The system opened on 28 December 2004, making Shenzhen the sixth city in mainland China to have a subway after Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan. The Shenzhen Metro currently has 5 lines, 118 stations, and 177 kilometres (110 mi)[1][4] of total trackage in operation. The network underwent rapid expansion prior to the 2011 Summer Universiade, opening 110 km (68.35 miles) of tracks in June 2011.[5] Currently, there are three lines under construction.[6]
- 1 Current System
- 2 Fares and tickets
- 3 Station facilities, amenities and services
- 4 History
- 5 Expansion Plans
- 6 Equipment
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Current System[edit]
The current system has five lines and provides a relatively fast and economical way of traveling in the east-central part of Shenzhen, compared to buses and taxis. Line 1 (Luobao) and Line 4 (Longhua) run to the border crossings between the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at Luohu/Lo Wu and Futian Checkpoint/Lok Ma Chau, where riders can transfer to Hong Kong's MTR East Rail Line for travel onward to Hong Kong. Each of the five lines intersect all of the other four lines at least once.
|Line 1
|Airport East
|Line 2
|Line 3
|Line 4
|Futian Checkpoint
|Line 5
Line 1 (Luobao Line)[edit]
Line 1 also known as the Luobao Line runs westward from Luohu to Airport East. Trains operate every 2 minutes during peak hours and every 4 minutes at other times. All stations in Luobao Line are underground.
- 28 December 2004: Luohu - Window of the World
- 28 September 2009: Window of the World - Shenzhen University
- 15 June 2011: Shenzhen University - Airport East[7]
Line 2 (Shekou Line)[edit]
Line 2 also known as the Shekou Line runs from Chiwan to Xinxiu. It connects with the Luobao Line at Window of the World, with the Longhua Line at Civic Center, with the Longgang Line at Futian and with the Luobao Line again at Grand Theater.
- 28 December 2010: Chiwan - Window of the World [8]
- 28 June 2011: Window of the World - Xinxiu
Line 3 (Longgang Line)[edit]
Line 3 also known as the Longgang Line runs from Yitian to Shuanlong in Longgang, in the north-east of the city. Construction began on 26 December 2005.[9] The line is operated by Shenzhen Metro No.3 Line Operations Branch Corporation
- 28 December 2010: Caopu - Shuanglong
- 28 June 2011: Yitian - Caopu [10]
Line 4 (Longhua Line)[edit]
Line 4 also known as the Longhua Line runs northward from Futian Checkpoint to Qinghu. Trains operate every 8 minutes. Stations from Futian Checkpoint to Lianhua North are underground. The line has been operated by MTR Corporation (Shenzhen), a subsidiary of MTR Corporation, since 1 July 2010.
- 28 December 2004: Fumin - Children's Palace
- 28 June 2007: Futian Checkpoint - Fumin
- 16 June 2011: Children's Palace - Qinghu
Line 5 (Huanzhong Line)[edit]
Line 5 also known as the Huanzhong Line runs from Qianhaiwan in the west to Huangbeiling in the east. Construction began in May 2009 and the line opened 22 June 2011.[11] Huanzhong Line required a total investment of 20.6 billion RMB.
- 22 June 2011: Qianhaiwan - Huangbeiling
Fares and tickets[edit]
Metro rides are priced according to distance travelled, and fares vary from 2 RMB to 11 RMB.[12] Since December 2010 fares are based on an a usage fee (2 RMB) + a distance fee. The distance fee is 1 RMB for each 4 km from 4 km to 12 km; after that 1 RMB for each 6 km from 12 km to 24 km and finally 1 RMB for every 8 km over 24 km distance.[13]
Children under the height of 120 cm or aged below 6 may ride for free when accompanied by an adult.[14] The metro also offers free rides to senior citizens over the age of 65, the physically disabled and military personnel. Tickets for children between 120 cm and 150 cm, or aged between 6 and 14 years, or middle scheool students, are half price.
Metro fares can be paid for with single-ride tokens, multiple-ride Shenzhen Metro TransCards or weekly passes.[15]
Tickets can be purchased at ticket machines or an information counter. When using cash, a green RFID token is purchased and scanned at the station entrance. The token is deposited into the slot at the destination station exit gate. The maximum fare will be charged if the passenger is unable to return the token.
Shenzhen Tong cards[edit]
Shenzhen Tong is similar to the Octopus card system used on the MTR rail lines in Hong Kong. The multiple fare card stores credit purchased at stations. The card can be used by waving it in front of the card reader located at all entrances and exits to the subway system. Riders who pay for metro fare with a card receive a 5% discount. Since 1 March 2008, riders who pay for a bus fare with a card and then a subway fare within 90 minutes receive an additional 40% discount on the subway fare.
Unlike Hong Kong Octopus Cards, Shenzhen Tong cards cannot be sold back to the stations or have faults dealt with by SZMC. Instead, the customer must go to the offices of Shenzhen Tong. Students studying in Shenzhen can use the Shenzhen Tong to receive a 50% discount.
Integration of Shenzhen Tong and Hong Kong Octopus Cards[edit]
Since 30 June 2011, users can reciprocally use their Shenzhen Tong and Hong Kong Octopus cards in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen for bus and train commuter travel. There are plans to further integrate the two systems. There have been plans for a new card which will be accepted all over Guangdong province and China's two SARs.[16][17]
Station facilities, amenities and services[edit]
Stations have toilets (free of charge), and public telephones. SZMC also operates luggage storage facilities in the concourse above Luohu Station. Cellphone service is available throughout the system provided by China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom.[18]
Like the Hong Kong MTR, Guangzhou, and Foshan metros, station announcements are in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Some announcements, such as train arrival, are in Mandarin and English only.
First phase[edit]
Planning of the Shenzhen Metro began in the 1980s, but construction of the first sections of Line 1 (Luobao) and Line 4 (Longhua) began only in 1999. The grand opening of the Shenzhen Metro system occurred at 5:00pm on Tuesday, 28 December 2004. Initially the trains operated at 15 minute frequencies and consisted of Line 1 services between Luohu and Shijie Zhi Chuang (now Window of the World) and the Line 4 services between Fumin and Shaonian Gong (now Children's Palace). Initially the English names of the stations were rendered in Hanyu Pinyin, but some of the names were changed to English translation with American spelling in mid-2011.
The Futian Checkpoint station opened on 28 June 2007 using the name Futian Kou'an.[19]
Name Change[edit]
On April 23, 2008, Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau announced that it would change the nomenclature of Shenzhen's subway lines. Instead of using numbers as the lines official designation, as typically used in other mainland Chinese metro systems, lines will be given Chinese names more akin to the Hong Kong MTR.[20] On 23 October 2013, the Shenzhen Metro Group combined both the number with the name for the current operational lines and the future lines will be in number only.[21] The name changes are as follows:
|Original Naming Scheme
|2008-2013 Naming Scheme
|Current Naming Scheme
|Line 1
|Luobao Line
|Line 1 (Luobao Line)
|Line 2
|Shekou Line
|Line 2 (Shekou Line)
|Line 3
|Longgang Line
|Line 3 (Longgang Line)
|Line 4
|Longhua Line
|Line 4 (Longhua Line)
|Line 5
|Huanzhong Line
|Line 5 (Huanzhong Line)
|Line 6
|Guangming Line
|Line 6
|Line 7
|Xili Line
|Line 7
|Line 8
|Yantian Line
|Line 8
|Line 9
|Meilin Line
|Line 9
|Line 11
|Airport Line
|Line 11
Second phase[edit]
Shenzhen Metro increased to over a hundred operating metro stations in June 2011, before the Shenzhen Universiade games.
Expansion Plans[edit]
Third phase[edit]
Phase 3 formally commenced in May 2011 with an expected cost of 80 billion yuan. The implementation period has been changed from 2011-2020 to 2011-2016.[22] It will cover Lines 6 (Guangming), 7 (Xili), 8 (Yantian), 9 (Meilin), and 11 (Airport) and will extend the length of the Shenzhen Metro to 348 kilometres and 10 lines.[6][23] In June 2011, the Shenzhen Urban Planning and Land Resources Commission started gather public input on Phase III station names.[24] Anticipated development and growth in Longgang has prompted officials to fast track the planning and construction of Line 16, from Futian Free Trade Zone to Pinghu via Meilin, to start in 2015 instead of after 2020.[25][26][27]
in km
|Line 11
|Under Construction [28][29][30]
|Line 7
|Xili Reservoir
|Under Construction[31][30]
|Line 9
|Under Construction [31][30]
|Line 6
|Shenzhen North
|Approved, Construction start in 2014 [30][32]
|Line 8
not given
|Line 9 (Western section)
|Hanghai Rd.
|Approved, Construction start in 2014
|Line 2 (Eastern section)
|Liantang East
|Approved, Construction start in 2014
|Line 3 (Eastern section)
|Approved, Construction start in 2014
|Line 6 (Southern section)
|Shenzhen North
|Science Museum
|Line 4 (Northern section)
|Approved, Construction start in 2014
|Line 16
|Futian Checkpoint
|Pinghu Center
|Approved, Construction start in 2014
Mid-term Plan[edit]
With the shortening of the Phase III implementation period,[22] a number of lines and extensions (Longhua Phase III, Lines 10 and 12) planned in 2007's Phase III moved into the next phase which could possibly be completed by 2020.[33]
in km
not given
|Line 10
|Sea World
|Approved (2017 u/c)
|Line 12
|Xinqiao Industrial Zone
|Approved (2017 u/c)
Long-term Plan[edit]
In the Shenzhen Metro 2007 masterplan has a further 4 lines (Line 13Line 14Line 15Line 16) which have a planned completion target of 2030.[34] In 2012, 4 further lines Qiannan (Line 17), Pinghu (Line 18), Pingshan (Line 19) and Fuyong (Line 20) where unveiled. This brings the total planned length of the Shenzhen metro to 720 km spread out over 20 lines. In addition to metro lines, 5 Pearl River Delta Rapid Transit lines connecting neighboring urban centers in the Pearl River Delta, totalling 146 km, have also been revealed.[35]
Extended Intercity Proposal[edit]
Aside from the set masterplan, at the 12th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress in January 2014,[36] it was proposed to extend Line 4 (Longhua Line) beyond the planned Phase III terminus at the Songyuan Bus Terminal in Guanlan. It is wanted to connect this line with the future Dongguan Metro Line R4 at the planned Tangxia station. The benefits of this proposal aims to shorten the distance between the two cities in residents' minds, boost tourism industries in both cities and expand housing options. It would also allow for direct connection between Hong Kong and Dongguan. As the area in the proposed area is less developed, the cost in building the line is expected to be reasonable, with a feasibility study is yet to conducted.
Rolling Stock[edit]
Luobao Line:
- 22 Bombardier Transportation Movia 456 6-car sets(101-122)
- 4 Changchun Railway Vehicles Type A 6-car sets, traction units by Bombardier Transportation(123-126)
- 26 Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. Type A 6-car sets, traction units by Siemens(127-152)
Shekou Line:
- 35 Changchun Railway Vehicles Type A 6-car sets, traction units by Bombardier Transportation(201-235)
Huanzhong Line:
- 22 Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. Type A 6-car sets, traction units by Siemens(501-522)
- 8 Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. Type A 6-car sets, traction units by CSR Times Electric(523-530)
Longgang Line:
- 43 Changchun Railway Vehicles Type B 6-car sets, traction units by Hyundai Rotem
Signaling system[edit]
For metro Luobao Line, Longhua Line and the extension of Luobao Line, Siemens Transportation Systems supplied 7 (Phase 1) and 6 (Phase 2) LZB 700 M continuous automatic control systems; 7 (Phase 1) and 6 (Phase 2) electronic Sicas ESTT interlockings; the Vicos OC 501 operations control system with 2 operations control centers, fall-back level with Vicos OC 101 and RTU (FEP), 230 (Phase 1) and 240 (Phase 2) FTG S track vacancy detection units.[37]
Shekou & Huanzhong Lines use Casco CBTC system with 2.4 GHz frequencies, and so the system has suffered frequent problems with interference from consumer Wi-Fi equipment.[38] By the end of November 2012, CASCO solved the problem on lines 2 and 5 by switching to their standard solution with frequency diversity on 2 different channels.
See also[edit]
- List of Shenzhen Metro stations
- List of rapid transit systems
- Dongguan Rail Transit
- FMetro
- Guangzhou Metro
- Hong Kong MTR
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- ^ photo of ongoing construction in Shekou
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- ^ (Chinese) fare information
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External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shenzhen Metro.
- Shenzhen Metro Official website (Chinese)
- Shenzhen Metro No.3 Line Operations Branch Official website (Chinese)
- MTR (Shenzhen) Official website (Chinese)
- UrbanRail's Shenzhen Metro Page
- Official Shenzhen Metro Model Train


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As the largest Ebola outbreak in history continues unabated, health authorities from 11 West African countries and international agencies began a two-day crisis meeting today in Accra, Ghana, on how to combat the crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO) says "drastic action" is needed to stem the outbreak, which since March has grown to 759 confirmed cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, including 467 deaths.
Given that surveillance and response measures have held this terrifying disease in check for the past decade, why has the situation gotten so far out of hand this time?
As with earlier outbreaks elsewhere in Africa, containment and treatment measures are often hampered by tradition, superstition, and poor public health infrastructure. But this epidemic is especially pernicious for several reasons.
In the early stages of the epidemic, when it could have been more easily contained, few health professionals in the region even knew it was taking place. Though outbreaks are common in central Africa, the disease had almost never been seen before in western Africa. And many of the first patients did not have symptoms consistent with a hemorrhagic fever, which initially obscured its identification. The public health response was therefore slow, and officials who made statements were often trying to calm people's fears, giving inaccurate and sometimes contradictory information.
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Ebola spreads to West Africa
The First Cases
The first official notice of clusters of an unknown, highly fatal disease apparently arrived at Guinea's Ministry of Health on March 10. But experts believe the first Ebola cases began appearing at hospitals in Guéckédou, a city in the forested highlands of southern Guinea, at least as far back as December 2013 and possibly even earlier.
The ministry sent a team to Guéckédou to investigate on March 14. Not until a week later did they notify WHO of "a rapidly evolving outbreak of Ebola virus in forested areas" in southeastern Guinea. By then there were 49 cases, including 29 deaths. A week after WHO's March 22 public alert, the numbers had jumped to 112 confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola virus and 70 deaths.
Patients were coming in without dramatic visible bleeding, instead presenting less unusual symptoms, including fever, vomiting, and severe diarrhea. (That's why responders in this outbreak are referring to "Ebola virus disease" rather than "Ebola hemorrhagic fever.") Even without the hemorrhaging, though, the case fatality rate is high, between 71 and 86 percent, and the virus spreads just as easily through contact with any fluid from the victim.
Now cases have been identified in more than 60 locations in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, threatening large cities as well as the countryside. Even for seasoned Ebola responders, this situation of multiple outbreaks across a vast area and into large cities is unique. Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that due to the scope and number of victims in this outbreak, it has reached its capacity to help.
In earlier Ebola outbreaks, such as in Sudan in 2004 and Uganda in 2012, the first response was to move suspected Ebola patients to an isolation facility. There doctors and nurses wearing full-body protective gear provided treatment. At the same time, other responders went into the community to begin the detective work of tracing the patient's contacts who might have been exposed to the virus. Eventually, as sources of infection were identified and removed from a vulnerable population, the outbreak would burn out. This approach has worked time and again in some of the most remote parts of Africa. But to be effective, responders need an early start, which they did not get.
The challenge now is twofold: to continue treating patients and to bring the outbreak under control. Treatment is dangerous for medical staff, and when they're sealed head to toe in protective gear with temperatures soaring above 90 degrees, it's also physically grueling. The work is also emotionally draining, as most of the young and old alike die despite heroic efforts. All this means that providing treatment to Ebola patients requires enormous physical and emotional stamina as well as courage.
Deep Distrust
Controlling the outbreak is no less daunting. "Educating populations is the best way to prevent transmission in the community," says David L. Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who has responded to several Ebola outbreaks in the past, including the first outbreak in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1976.
But such efforts now face a slew of difficulties. The work of informing at-risk populations is being thwarted by superstition, fear, and suspicion.
The first step in containment is to get those affected to health centers where they can be isolated and treated. But as community members are taken to isolation wards—most never to be seen again—rumors often circulate that the wards are not for treatment but for something more sinister.
So Ebola patients often hide from the authorities trying to gather names of close contacts. Those who are put in isolation may escape and be hidden by families. Sierra Leone has now made it a crime to hide victims, but punitive measures rarely make the job easier for public health responders.
In places where the concept of infectious diseases is unknown, Ebola victims and their families are often stigmatized. Some in the community believe that the illness is the result of a curse and that those associating with the victim or the victim's family will fall under the curse as well.
Community life is disrupted when health workers suddenly appear, dressed in what appear to be space suits. And these communities often already have a deep-seated suspicion of outsiders. In this outbreak, health workers have been met with hostility and violence in several locations, and an MSF official said one team has had to withdraw from an outbreak site because of the intense local reaction.
Enlisting the Community
The people at greatest risk in Ebola outbreak areas have to accept that certain traditional activities, such as eating animals found dead in the forest, or bush meat, can be dangerous and should be abandoned. And they have to be persuaded to give up some of their longstanding burial practices, such as washing the body, since the Ebola virus can live on the skin of a victim even after death.
These public health messages are now being broadcast on television and radio in the region, but it's not yet clear whether they're changing behaviors. Trust in pronouncements by government or health authorities still appears to be low. In part, this may be due to comments made by public officials, such as the declaration in April by the president of Guinea that the outbreak was under control. Public trust suffered another setback in early May, when sites were reporting that the number of cases had dropped, in some places to zero. It quickly became clear that the outbreak was not over.
Ebola responders report that local communities are still very frightened and view health facilities with suspicion. Though organizations are working to raise awareness, MSF says civil, political, and religious authorities are "failing to acknowledge the scale of the epidemic, with few prominent figures spreading messages promoting the fight against the disease."
WHO's meeting this week should raise awareness of the disease in the region, but that awareness has to be followed by widespread, accurate health campaigns, which will require a strong commitment from national leaders. Awareness campaigns can be effective if the community trusts the educator. This means framing the public health message in a way that addresses the cultural context of the audience. Public health educators must be active listeners—one reason anthropologists have long been essential members of outbreak-response teams.
The goal is to enlist the community in fighting the outbreak. It's possible to gain a community's trust and cooperation even in the midst of the frenzy of an outbreak. In some remote corners of central Africa, communities understand Ebola so well that they've learned to serve as their own surveillance system. But this is a long-term goal, and it will not be accomplished easily or quickly.
Dick Thompson was a communications official at WHO from 2001 to 2009. He specialized in outbreak communications and named the disease SARS. Prior to joining WHO, he was a science and medical journalist and bureau chief for Time magazine for 23 years. He now lives in Portland, Oregon.
Ebola can be stopped by keeping your body highly alkaline and taking specific things that target the virus and stop it's replication: http://www.thehealingfrequency.com/ebola-virus-outbreak-can/
Time has come for governments at the local, state, and federal levels to wake up and deal with the reality of governing. Ebola epidemic in some parts of Africa is a wake up call as to where we are in terms of preparedness. According to this article, of the 759 people affected, 467 have died of the disease. That is, a virulence of 62%. Superstition, tradition, and poor healthcare infrastructure were cited as reason for the spread. While the outbreak of the disease was noticed, health officials were not made aware of it on time due to lack of system in place. As governments invest in terrorism, it should also invest in healthcare, especially, epidemiology surveillance of diseases and education of the people about the symptoms of the disease and actions to take to contain it from spreading to others when a victim is identified.
$5.00 of IV vitamin C, 20-40 grams IV QD would likely cure most of these patients in a week, research Fred Klenner, MD, Thomas Levy MD JD.
shouldn't we be distributing all drugs currently being tested for efficacy against this horribly dangerous disease?
who cares a bout possible side effects when the mort rate is over 60%?
and also, this would give those drugs expidited real world testing.
this should already be being done.
ALSO, has the CDC evaluated surge production of any of these drugs, just in case it gets way out of hand in the coming months? which is probably going to do.
@james cruise Besides natural vinegar from sweat, good germs and viruses compete for space except when everything is killed by bleach
silver-nitrate and povidone-Iodine don't evaporate like bleach and thus resist cross-infection, Ebola survivors can work without cumbersome equipment, when health workers lecture isolated villages they may meet a few survivors doing a better job then urban hospices (no not hospitals)
In overwhelmed Kenema General Hospital found a little hope watching patients helping patients. One nursing her far-sicker husband then saving the lives of several babies,
PS malaria is confusable with Ebola like the man who infected Texes thought his neighbor had. Llet's zap malaria and and the mosquitoes, with less DDT then locals sprinkle around at least in the long run.
Let's try to preserve Africa tradition, China demanded only one child now Chinese on the mainland no longer want more. Not helping a sick relative during an emergency might become habit when the emergency is over, For traditional sick huts except for the Iodine silver-nitrate odor and cloth gloves, and thus a touch of tradition surviving like with the Amish see,
@Anyanwumere Alagor They have been aware of it but cant cure it there is no cure for it .
Your comments were well said and I completely agree. This virus has been on the WHO and CDC radiar for several decades now, and this outbreak shouldn't have been a surprise, they knew this would happen. Virus's mutate and this one has done what they feared and now can last long enough to be spread. This is a horrid virus that kills in days and those poor people suffer. I hope the governments in control of that region listen, stop worrying about power, and start taking care of their people and their beautiful culture. What a horrible thing to happen.
Thank you for your post,
K. Lane
@Paul Maher please stop talking nutraceuticals when this is such a serious matter, people are dying, oranges don't cure ebola. The main prevention rests with sanitation and bush meat, please don't lead anyone astray, even if you mean well...
@Paul Maher not true vitamin c doesnt cure anything it doesnt affect immune system. Thats a fairy tale
Any preventative medication that can be used to enhance immune system for people not yet infected?
@Egon Krebs This exact issue is currently being discussed - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/02/us-health-ebola-medicines-idUSKBN0F714C20140702
Running an effective clinical trial in those conditions is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, but the risk:benefit greatly favors the deployment of non-approved therapies. I expect if this persists for another 2-3 months we'll see experimental agents being used. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.
Not large enough outbreak for a test run you would have to shoot blindly.. you need at least 1000 people to test it's usefullness. Or effectiveness also there could be deadly side affects which with to small a group might go unnoticed
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Behavioral finance, along with the related fields of neuroeconomics and neurofinance, looks at financial decisions through the lenses of psychology and brain science. Serious researchers and academics in these disciplines go beyond the "my mom hated me so I punish myself with bad trades" pop psychology to look at the ways human psychology and brain function shape the way we look at risk and make financial decisions.
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Ricciardi, 45, is a Finance Professor at Goucher College in Baltimore, where he focuses on current trends in behavioral finance. He is also coordinator of behavioral and experimental research for the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com), where he edits eJournals on behavioral finance, financial history, behavioral economics, risk, and behavioral accounting.
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AT: What was your goal in putting together this book?
VR: The objective was to develop the first comprehensive behavioral finance book that integrates the financial planning process and investment management based on the emerging research findings.
The vast majority of the content in the book focuses on the decision-making process of the individual. This micro-behavioral finance viewpoint gives readers extensive new research for understanding their mental mistakes, and offers individual investors and traders methods for improving the decision-making process.
We really tried to pare out a lot of the equations and academic studies and hone in on the most important findings in the field, to try to help people with best practices and strategy so they can become better decision makers.
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AT: Were there any unexpected revelations from your contributors — ideas or perspectives you hadn't considered before, or saw in a new light?
VR: A major finding from the book for me was the unique polar opposition of traders vs. investors.
Traders tend to trade too much because they are overconfident, and this reduces their profits at times.
Investors in retirement accounts demonstrate the opposite behavior. Retirement savers tend to be "status quo" investors who suffer from inertia and a lack of activity, which can negatively impact an individual's risk tolerance and asset-allocation strategy.
AT: Because of the key role emotions play in trading and investing, do you — or any of your contributors — feel the pitfalls of emotional decision-making are best avoided by using a systematic or mechanical approach? Or is there a positive role emotions can play in the trading or investment process?
VR: The answer to both questions is yes. The chapter contributors demonstrate both viewpoints by separating the trader and investor categories — there are certain biases that might affect traders and others that might impact long-term investors. Another important factor is the role of personality within the decision-making process and how an individual perceives risk.
AT: Can you give an example of a situation where emotions would be a positive rather than a negative?
VR: In the risk-taking domain some researchers make an assumption of a positive relationship between emotion and risk known as the Affect Infusion Model. The premise of this model is a positive mood increases a person's risk tolerance. For example, a trader in a happy or positive mood would more likely invest in a risky asset such as a stock.
AT: If you had to pick one key behavioral bad habit investors should try to understand and avoid, what would it be?
VR: The notion of "anchoring" has a detrimental influence on all categories of investors. The anchoring bias is the strong preference we all have to latch on to a viewpoint that may or may not be true, and use it as a reference point for future decisions.
For example, if a trader lost money on a technology stock in the past, the anchoring bias might prevent someone from buying a technology stock in the future. Unfortunately, even when a person realizes he or she is suffering from anchoring bias, it's difficult for them to lift the "anchor" if the past decision was very traumatic.
AT: Did working on the book help you better understand your own mental mistakes?
VR: Yes, I am always learning new things about myself. I tend to be overconfident, a risk-taker, and a worrier at times. I suffer from regret and the anchoring bias, and I hate realizing a loss.
AT: What directions do you think behavioral finance will be headed in the coming years?
VR: A newer area of study is the role of our subconscious. For example, the subconscious of an individual watching a negative news story on television might influence a person's mood, resulting in that trader paying a higher price for a stock.
Another interesting area is neurofinance, in which our biology influences our decision-making process. Observing our brain patterns might one day identify our investing and spending patterns. Finally, many professionals are starting new practices and firms for providing investors with financial counseling for "money disorders," and giving traders psychological coaching to make better decisions.


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The current ceiling (1965) is of Andre Masson. He took around the central topic Apollo-Sun, the figures of the Comedy and the Tragedy
The Outside
The Theatre of Odéon, which opened its doors in 1782, is the oldest Parisian Theatre Auditorium still upright. The principal frontage is avoided of a rectilinear colonnade. Bridges, on each side, led then to coffees located in the buildings which flank the theatre, on the other side of the street.
The Roger Blin Auditorium
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The Auditorium
The room, of circular plan at the origin, in ellipse since the restoration of Chalgrin, is the first Parisian Auditorium to sit the spectators of the orchestra.
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