PSYCHOLOGY • GUIDE

Investor Behaviour & Common Biases

Understand loss aversion, confirmation bias, recency bias, anchoring and overconfidence.

Investment decisions are influenced by how people process uncertainty and losses.

Confirmation bias

Looking mainly for evidence that supports an existing thesis can hide disconfirming information.

Recency

Recent performance can feel more representative than it is.

Process

Write the thesis, risks and disconfirming evidence before price movements influence the story.

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