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Understand behavioral science and psychology to boost your consistency and results!

Trading Psychology

Understand behavioral science and psychology to boost your consistency and results!

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Spencer Li

Hindsight Bias – When People Say “I Knew It All Along!”

Trading Psychology
I knew it all along - trading psychology

Hindsight bias is believing, after an event, that you saw it coming all along when you did not. In trading it quietly rewrites your memory of calls.

12 May 2012Read the guide ›

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Spencer Li

Loss Aversion Bias – Why a Loss Has Twice the Psychological Impact

Trading Psychology
Losses hurt twice as much - behavioural finance

Loss aversion is feeling a loss about twice as strongly as an equal gain. See how this bias skews your trading decisions and what you can do to fix it.

24 Apr 2012Read the guide ›

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Spencer Li

Confirmation Bias – I See Only What I Want to See!

Trading Psychology
Seeing only what you want - behavioural finance

Confirmation bias is trusting information that backs what you already believe and ignoring the rest. Here is why it hurts traders and how to beat it.

14 Apr 2012Read the guide ›

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Spencer Li

Endowment Bias – Do You Really “Own” a Trading Position?

Trading Psychology
Do you really own it? - behavioural finance

Endowment bias is valuing something more simply because you own it. It keeps traders in losing positions too long. See how to spot it in your own trading.

20 Mar 2012Read the guide ›

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Spencer Li

Optimism Bias – Why Most People Think They Can Beat the Market

Trading Psychology
Optimism bias in markets - behavioural finance

Optimism bias is overestimating good outcomes and underestimating bad ones. In trading, it makes you believe losses only happen to other people.

20 Feb 2012Read the guide ›

by Spencer Li
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