The Key to Avoiding This Common Investing Pitfall

One of the biggest arguments in all of investing is whether the markets are 'efficient' or not... The idea of an "efficient market" is that all the available information out there is "priced in" to stock prices. This means that investors have no real way to gain an advantage. But instinctively, we know this is […] Not rendering correctly? View this e-mail as a web page [here](. [Empire Financial Daily] The Key to Avoiding This Common Investing Pitfall By Enrique Abeyta --------------------------------------------------------------- [This could literally save your retirement]( The man CNBC called "The Prophet" says he'd put 50% of his kid's college fund in this stock. [He reveals the name and the ticker symbol here](... --------------------------------------------------------------- One of the biggest arguments in all of investing is whether the markets are 'efficient' or not... The idea of an "efficient market" is that all the available information out there is "priced in" to stock prices. This means that investors have no real way to gain an advantage. But instinctively, we know this is not true. All you need to do is watch a stock drop 5% on an analyst downgrade or a tweet from the CEO, and the logic that this is all priced in doesn't stand up. The major reason why markets are not efficient is because, ultimately, human beings make the vast majority of investment decisions. As much as we would like to say that these decisionmakers are rational and unemotional, the reality is that hundreds of thousands of years of genetic programming still govern our actions. These are responses that were developed to keep the human race alive... and they worked! It's hard to override that with a couple years of business school. The most powerful of these responses which impacts trading is called the 'negativity bias'... This is a condition in which negative events have a greater impact on our brains than positive ones. Research on human brain activity has shown that negative stimuli generates three to 12 times more physical (electrical) response than positive stimuli. One famous experiment by economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman had participants imagine either losing or gaining $50. Even though the amount was the same, the emotional response of those losing the money was larger. The negativity felt around losing something is much larger than the advantage of gaining something – even if it's the same amount at stake. This makes sense... For ancient humans, a good meal from a fresh kill would trigger a positive response and a full stomach, but falling off a cliff would trigger death and no more responses. Earlier in human history, paying attention to negative stimuli was literally a matter of life and death. But today, it gets in the way of good investing... 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Investors that have sold these stocks have overemphasized the negative. In many positions, we see companies that have beaten expectations on every metric but one, and the stocks tumble. This is a prime example of negativity bias. Another problem is when we dwell on negative events... even after they have passed. I've fallen prey to this even in my own investing, where I would have a portfolio of 30 stocks but find myself spending 90% of my focus on the one or two losers in that group. Those stocks ended up being doubly dangerous because not only were they losing me money, but they also prevented me from properly focusing on the rest of the portfolio. This resulted in missed opportunities and – equally important – made me miserable. Don't discount the psychological impact that "losers" can have on your investing beyond just the money you've lost. For the past three years, my Empire Elite Trader readers have booked an 87% success rate in the stock market... Our strategy has nothing to do with long-term, buy-and-hold investing... risky options or cryptocurrencies... and you don't have to stay near your computer all day waiting for a constant barrage of trade alerts. I always look forward to hearing about the success that my readers are having by following my trading advice, like Victor C., who says... Enrique's recommendations have been amazing! My trading account is 20% up in only 3 months. And Mike W., who told me... Enrique's "Elite Trader" has made me a lot of money! When I first signed up for Empire Financial Research as a lifetime member, little did I know how much the program would keep getting better as new services were added. It keeps paying for itself over and over! Thanks, Whitney and Enrique! You've made a "little guy" in the world of stocks and trading a very happy man. And John M., who says... I am increasing the size of my investments because Enrique's suggestions are carefully selected and I could have made a lot more money had I made bigger investments in my prior and current positions. New positions are going to be larger now that I am more comfortable with the concept of trading with carefully constructed stops to limit the downside and have much more confidence in the validity of Enrique's recommendations. Today, with the stock market such a mess – and thousands of Empire Financial Daily readers wondering what to do next – I've decided to give you a free demo of how it works and even offer you free access. [Click here to learn more](. Regards, Enrique Abeyta October 17, 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------- If someone forwarded you this e-mail and you would like to be added to the Empire Financial Daily e-mail list to receive e-mails like this every weekday, simply [sign up here](. © 2022 Empire Financial Research. All rights reserved. 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