Emotional Investing
There are as many ways to make money from the markets as there are people trading them. However, they generally fall into a limited number of general methods. You can use these methods to your advantage when investing.
We all have them. It’s what distinguishes us as humans. We may not want to admit it, but we all have emotions and attitudes that can and do impact our decisions for buying and selling stocks. These emotions can include: fear, panic, greed, arrogance, happiness, unhappiness, love, infatuation, and ego. These emotions often do an extensive amount of damage to a good investment strategy. At least with regard to investing, we would all be better served if we could remove these emotions from our psyche.
It is pretty apparent to most people who observe people act and react that they do a lot of what they do based on moderately primal and/or emotionally motivated impulses. Many experiments have been conducted to check the impact that primal instincts and emotion-based thinking has on investing and stock market psychology. They have generally proposed that when people are presented with ambiguity their emotions can overtake their logical thinking, guiding them to resist speculative propositions. This raises the challenging hypothesis that people who are less fearful than other people may produce more proficient investors.
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