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Showing posts with label loss aversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loss aversion. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 November 2025

Thinking Fast & Slow. Cognitive biases that trick us. How Loss Aversion harm your long-term returns?

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Loss Aversion This is one of the most powerful concepts in behavioral economics. "It hurts more to lose $X than it feels good to gain $...
Saturday, 11 January 2020

Avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

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Be fearful when others are greedy It can be hard to  concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and ...
Saturday, 29 September 2018

Psychology and Investing: Loss Aversion

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Loss Aversion Many investors will focus obsessively on one investment that is losing money , even if the rest of their portfolio is in th...
Thursday, 12 January 2017

Asymmetric Loss Aversion

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The pain of a loss is far greater than the enjoyment of a gain. Many experiments have demonstrated that people need twice as much positi...
Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Rational thinking about Irrational pricing. For the most acutely loss-averse investors, pure value investing is most suitable.

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1.  Depressed investors cause depressed stock market prices. 2.  Selling pressure mounts and drives prices down. 3.  Investors possessin...
Friday, 21 September 2012

Stung by Losses, Main Street Investors Fail to Notice Market's Rebound

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By Karen Weise on September 19, 2012 Although the memory of Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse may be fading on Wall Street, the shock...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

Loss Aversion

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It's no secret, for example, that many investors will focus obsessively on one investment that's losing money, even if the rest...
Monday, 28 May 2012

Different styles of framing choices causes different preferred outcomes.

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Loss Aversion, Risk, & Framing The next stop in the framing inquiry involves the unique relationship of risk taking to positiv...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

How Mating and Self-Protection Motives Alter Loss Aversion

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