behavioral finance

  • Trusting your Intuition in Financial Markets
    Posted by on August 29th, 2017 at 6:26 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits I think the world has gone way too far in shutting down intuition when it comes to investing. Everything is passive and […]

  • Three Ways To Be In Service To the Market
    Posted by on March 2nd, 2016 at 4:41 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits The constant drone of controversy you hear in the background on active vs passive management and rules-based vs discretionary and how you “outsmart” […]

  • Underlying behavioral trends
    Posted by on February 22nd, 2016 at 6:16 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits It seems the market is in a downtrend, but trends can be notoriously difficult to identify in their early stages. Trend fakeouts […]

  • Seasons of the market
    Posted by on February 11th, 2016 at 3:54 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits A sunny and bullish trending market showering your portfolio with gains feels incredible. During the market summer, bearish sentiment quickly turns cautiously […]

  • Is your brain a fortress or a wild bus ride?
    Posted by on September 26th, 2015 at 6:45 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits One year ago, I had a profound experience that completely changed the way I look at psychology, decision making, and personal development. The […]

  • Simple rule to improve financial decisions
    Posted by on September 5th, 2015 at 3:48 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Why are financial decisions so difficult? Not just the ones related to investing and trading but the ones that spill over into […]

  • Momentum Mechanism
    Posted by on May 26th, 2015 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   I want to touch on a couple reasons why momentum works and why I see it as one of the few […]

  • Representativeness Bias: Easy Classifications
    Posted by on March 2nd, 2015 at 1:16 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Representativeness bias is when you classify new info based on classifications that have worked in your past experiences. We derive meaning from […]

  • Confirmation bias: A dependable filter of objective information
    Posted by on November 21st, 2014 at 1:34 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits This series might sound like a crazy rant against using your gut instincts to ever make investment decisions. In fact, when we […]

  • Conservatism Bias: How to know what new information to focus on
    Posted by on November 20th, 2014 at 2:20 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Intro Traditional finance famously makes lot of incorrect assumptions about how humans make decisions. They assume that we are fully rational, and […]