At the end of November, The New York Times ran an article by columnist and CFA Carl Richards that addresses how the tendency to invest based on emotion rather than…
Tag: Emotions
How the Brain Handles Buying and Selling
We’ve written often about the role that human behavior plays in investing. While logic and reason are contributing factors, emotions hardly take a back seat. In a recent issue of…
Your Emotions and the Stock Market
A critical element in successful investing is “how you react to feelings of both discomfort during the market’s fear cycle and invincibility when markets are booming,” writes Marty Leclerc earlier…
The "Hurry Up And Kiss Me" Market
The following is an excerpt from the June 3rd, 2016 Validea Hot List newsletter. Summary: The financial crisis and Great Recession were incredibly painful events for investors, the financial equivalent…
Forecasts are more like “Aftercasts”
New research illustrates how strongly the recent past influences investor expectations, as Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig notes. Research by Professors William Goetzman, Robert Shiller, and Dasol Kim concluded,…
How Your Brain Hurts Your Returns - And What You Can Do To Stop It
What’s the biggest obstacle to investment success? Validea’s John Reese says it may well be our own brains. “The capabilities of human beings’ brains are staggering,” Reese writes in his…