Behavioural Traps
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5 Investing Biases to Avoid
Investing is all about rational thinking and logical decision-making. Common human Psychological investing biases often lead to poor decisions and investment mistakes.
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Averaging Down in Stocks: When It Works and When It Destroys Wealth
Averaging down in stocks is one of the most common behaviours seen among investors, especially during market declines.
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Stock Market Correction: 3 Smart Strategies Every Investor Must Know
Currently, we are experiencing a market correction in the stock market which is a normal part and a temporary phenomenon in a business cycle.
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Checking Stock Prices Regularly is Stressful and Unproductive
Time seems to fly by when we talk to people we are attracted to, or when we like doing something. And it also seems to slow down when we do something we find boring.
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How to Emotionally Prepare for Stock Market Correction?
They often bring negative news, price declines, and emotional pressure that can derail even disciplined investors.
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Be prepared to change your views, if the facts demand…In the Stock Markets too!
‘When the facts change, I change my mind, what do you do sir?’ – following this Keynesian quote in the stock markets may put you on the road to successful investing. But we humans are very reluctant when it comes to changing…
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Stock Analysis vs Prediction: Why Forecasting Prices Leads to Poor Decisions
Forecasts are difficult to make especially those concerning the future. In today’s world stock investing has become synonymous to forecasting! But the key to successful investing is having an analytical approach towards your investment, rather than forecasting daily price movements based on…
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Information Overload in Investing: Why More Data Doesn’t Mean Better Decisions
Information is like an antibiotic. An antibiotic over dosage can have varied effects on our health, from causing complications to being lethal. But what’s so disastrous about having an information overload. Stock Shastra #16 helps you avoid the disastrous effects of Information…
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Stop listening to Experts: Build Your Own Investing Discipline
Listening to experts is almost like an addiction for most stock investors. While many don’t even realize that they are addicted to this, others who have experienced that experts don’t win for them, are wondering how they can ever get out of…
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Time to switch off media and focus on long-term investing
Till last several months, Media has been touting high equity returns and multi-bagger stock picks at expensive prices.
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Loss Aversion: Why Investors Hold On to Losing Investments for Too Long
One of the biggest challenges in investing is not market volatility or stock selection—it’s managing our own behavior.
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Investors’ common mistake during bullish market
You as an investor, may be considering trailing earnings or ROEs as base case for arriving at any valuation.
