Read? Investing Made Simple by Uncle8888 (8) on Two-Way Buying Decision Avoid paying a price for overconfidence As retail investors, how do you know you have become overconfidence and may have exaggerated your skills in TA/FA? One common sign of being overconfidence and exhibit the sense of exaggerated superior analytical skills in TA/FA is those who keep on doing Averaging Down on it while the market is aggressively selling it down. They think that they are right and the market is wrong; but they often forget that in the stock market there are hundreds and thousands of Not-So-Stupid investors or professional Jaws analysing the same set of data and realized that it is better for them to take profit, cut losses or start shorting as the worst is not over yet. Probably, a two-way buy decision may help to avoid being overconfidence and whether averaging down is more than justified. ......