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behavioral edge

Market (In)Efficiency and beating the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 25, 2026January 27, 2026
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Behavioral inefficiencies are likely the most enduring because human nature has not changed much over time and is unlikely to change much in the future.

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The Winner’s Curse and Homo Investorus

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 18, 2026January 31, 2026
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

The world does not operate in accordance with conventional economic or finance theory posited on the notion that people are both rational and selfish.

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Danny Kahneman type risk policies for investors

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 31, 2024November 5, 2024
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Investor psychology can cause a security to be priced just about anywhere in the short run, regardless of its fundamentals

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My investment performance and how I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 7, 2024February 7, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

It is value investing pure and simple with a concentrated portfolio, but the companies must have really good growth prospects.

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Managing yourself

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 8, 2023October 8, 2023
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Each post has a list of what Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winning psychologist, calls risk policies and I call gap-to-edge rules.

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An investor’s edge as the competition gets tougher

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 9, 2023July 9, 2023
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

I would say there’s been a great increase in the number people doing dumb things. And they do big, dumb things.

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Fifty years – Beaten the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 8, 2023January 23, 2023
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

It’s amazing that 2% makes such a big difference

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A set of rules to develop a behavioral edge – Part 5

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 20, 2022April 1, 2024
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Our mind searches for confirming evidence that we are right and shies away from contrary evidence.

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A set of rules to develop a behavioral edge – Part 1

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 23, 2022April 1, 2024
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Today everyone is fretting about inflation and the potential for a recession. Trying to decide on the outlook for these macro-economic things can be a distraction.

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Superior investment performance – what it takes – part 2

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 17, 2022October 16, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

As an individual investor I have to recognize that I am unlikely to think of something the brains of Wall Street haven’t thought of, or see things the brains of Wall Street have missed, or have insights they don’t possess.

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