So what
does loss aversion have to do with you making «stupid trades»?
Not exact matches
We don't publish those methods, but suffice it to say that when the market demonstrates divergences and breakdowns in the behavior of various sectors, that
loss of «uniformity» is often a signal that investor preferences have subtly shifted toward risk -
aversion.
We don't even need to know what will produce that risk -
aversion, because the extent of the market
losses over the completion of a market cycle are generally more closely related to the preceding level of overvaluation than they are to the particular event that prompts the risk -
aversion.
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Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic
Loss Aversion?
High
loss aversion seemed to help players» performance when they were threatened with increasing
losses; even with a potential $ 100
loss, participants in this category didn't choke.
And gambling, that's a great point, in a negative sum game why doesn't
loss aversion over power the thrill of the win?
The expected returns of stocks and bonds change over time, but the human
aversion to
losses does not.
For important investment goals, investors tend to prefer conservative investment strategies, and they favor bonds over stocks, (the amount by which they
do so would, of course, depend on the extent of their
loss aversion), while for very ambitious goals, investors are willing to take more risk.
Loss aversion causes the investor to search for investments that don't exist and results in either taking no action or later discovering that the selected investment fails to meet the expectation.
Don't let
loss aversion bias torpedo your investment returns.
We have the same evolutionary history that has wired us to experience time and
loss -
aversion just as other people
do.
Part of the problem is inadequate thinking and risk
aversion about new asset classes, because they don't have
loss data for assets that have been bought to securitize.
A lot of this has to
do with basic human psychology — specifically,
loss aversion.