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Pillar 3 the psycology of investing    
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Are investors rational and behave in the best own self interest?   No, this is not true  
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behavioral finance   the study of human nature and how it forces us to make irrational choices  
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conventional finance   assumes that investors only make rational choices  
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thaylor   did research on behavioral finance  
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basic errors made by humans in estimating probabilities   work done by Konoman and Chiverski,  
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t or f human beings are social animals and enjoy sharing their common interest   true,  
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disney, microsoft & coco cola (large growth companies)   thought to be the best price to own. this drove up the prices, this may happen even though the stocks are not gaining the investor a return  
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overconfidence   one of the most common of behavioral errors and comes in the form of 1.you can successful pick stocks by following a few simple rules (you have as much a chance of beating industry as starting as a receiver for the Broncos) 2. picking mutual funds  
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Assumption of the past is predictive of the long term future   this is an error  
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recentcy   we tend to overemphesize more recent data and ignore older data even if it is more comprehensive  
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mean reversion   periods of relatively good performance tend to be followed by relatively poor performance  
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buying hot assets classes of the past several years   this is bad odds  
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If indexing works so well, why do so few do it?   because it is boring, you are going to do well, but you are giving up the chance of striking it rich.  
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What is one of the most common investment traits?   the need for excitement, again this is why many do not index  
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what are the two kinds of risk   short term and long term  
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short term risk   this is that knot in our stomachs when our portfolios drop 5% over the short term  
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myopic loss aversion   a focus on short term dangers and ignoring the more serious long term ones  
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great company, great stock falacy   one of the most dangerous investment erros of all, companies like coco cola, mircosoft, disney and the like, serious investors do the math, amateurs listen to stories,  
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higilty pigilty growth   a great looking companies growth is the same as the market  
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In the words of Walt Kelly   "We have met the enemy and he is us".  
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Pattern hallucination   maladaptive behavior  
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