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A set of rules to develop a behavioral edge – Part 3

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 6, 2022November 9, 2022
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Our gut needs training. Many of our instinctive feelings are the exact opposite of what we should be doing.

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The inherently short-term nature of the investment management industry

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 28, 2022August 29, 2022
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Market conditions are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion, and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission

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Fear and investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 24, 2021October 25, 2021
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

The house of fear has many windows

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The psychology of probability

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 9, 2020September 7, 2020
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Probabilities are at the heart of investing. We look at examples of our human frailties in assessing probabilities.

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The psychology of risk

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 2, 2020May 2, 2021
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Risk aversion is an unwillingness to take on a risk in spite of the fact that the reward amply justifies the risk taken

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Thoughts on beating the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 5, 2020November 22, 2020
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

No investment decision should ever be motivated by trying to beat the market. The moment this impulse creeps in, the investor is liable to risk seeking behavior.

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The special risks of investing a windfall gain

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 9, 2019November 1, 2020
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Investors always need to be alert for things that make us risk seeking. Risk seeking is bad. Risk seeking is being willing to take a risk even if the chances of success are poor. Risk seeking causes investors to lose money.

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