More importantly, because the vast majority of actively managed funds fail to beat index funds, when individual investors put their money in active funds they often get the double whammy of poor performance from both the fund and their
own emotional investor behavior.
More importantly, because many actively managed funds fail to beat index funds, when individual investors put their money in active funds they often get the double whammy of poor performance from both the fund and their own
emotional investor behavior.
The P / E10 level (the price of an index over the average of the last 10 years of earnings) tells you
how emotional investors are at any given time.
There are no safeguards that can protect
the emotional investor from himself.»
In the eyes of a naive and
emotional investor, the price of 1 BCH is still much lower than the price of 1 bitcoin.
By much the same token, there are no safeguards that can protect
the emotional investor from himself.»
They were interviewed about their book Working with
the Emotional Investor: Financial Psychology for Wealth Managers.
Many of the biggest up days in the stock market happen after a long - term bottom is achieved and
emotional investors have just sold.
Unfortunately for me, I am somewhat of
an emotional investor, where I've found myself visibly reacting to market movements a little too much.
A main culprit for this sobering statistic is the «
emotional investor, «who reacts to the market, eagerly buying when stocks are soaring, and anxiously selling when they're falling — the exact opposite of the timeworn and often elusive «buy low - sell high» adage.
This is where being
an emotional investor can really hurt.
It worked out for me since I'm not really
an emotional investor, but I admit I have made mistakes along the way.
A main culprit for this sobering statistic is the «
emotional investor, «who reacts to the market, eagerly buying when stocks are soaring, and anxiously selling when they're falling — the exact opposite of the timeworn and often elusive «buy low - sell high» adage.
And... a little lesson in Psychology... learn how to think with your good investor brain and not
your emotional investor brain.