Feeling Anxious About Your Investments?, with Scott Nations
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Over Reaction, Heristic Salience and Recency Bias
When investors are impacted by information overload, they become more susceptible to the status quo bius. They also tend to over react and sell that stock down much more than we should. What happened last quarter or last month is probably not the best barometer for what a company is going to do over the next ten years. There's quite a bit of really interesting data that shows that if people will buy the worst performing stocks over a certain period of time and sell the best performing stocks over that same period of time, that is generally a profitable strategy.
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