Dear Readers,
Thank you for coming here!
Have you ever done below?
Sold a great stock at a 10 or 20% gain, only to see it skyrocket shortly afterHeld a bad stock for the longest time, only to see it drop to the bottomIf you have done so and more than a few times, you are definitely NOT alone.
I am with you totally. I have done this with quite a few stocks for quite a few times in my not-so-long investment journey.
When I recalled my experiences and my thinking process leading to the decisions, I realized that it was due to the mismatch between the behavior of the Stock Market and the behavior of my own.
The stock market, maybe most of the things in this world, follows Matthew Effect, while my behavior followed Anchoring Effect and Mean Reversion.
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