7 ways your brain makes you a terrible investor
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It doesn't matter how rational you think you are.
You have a brain, and the chemicals in your brain often force you to make irrational decisions. This affects all your decisions, whether in your love life or your investment portfolio.
"Investors are 'normal,' not rational," says Meir Statman, one of the leading thinkers in behavioral finance.
Behavioral finance is the booming field of study aiming to reconcile the discrepancy between rational valuation and irrational market pricing. Top behavioral-finance gurus you may have heard of include the University of Chicago's Richard Thaler, Nobel laureates Robert Shiller and Daniel Kahneman, and Credit Suisse's Michael Mauboussin.
With the help of Hersh Shefrin's "Beyond Greed and Fear," we compiled a list of the seven common behavioral biases that drive investor decisions. Read through them, and you'll quickly realize why you make such terrible financial decisions.
Investors believe they are awesome at investing.
Overconfidence may be the most obvious concept in behavioral finance. This is when you place too much confidence in your ability to predict the outcomes of your investment decisions.
Overconfident investors are often underdiversified and thus more susceptible to volatility.
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