Decision-Making And The 10 Most Common Psychological Biases Of Investing | Zero Hedge

Decision-Making And The 10 Most Common Psychological Biases Of Investing | Zero Hedge. (FULL ARTICLE)

Be it BBQ judging, investing, picking out an outfit, or even choosing whether or not you’re going to show up for work tomorrow – ConvergEx’s Nick Colas notes that there’s a decision making process occurring.  Quite simply, decision making is the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a final choice among several alternative scenarios.  Final choices can be opinions (as in “This brisket is an 8”) or actions (such as “I will invest in tech stocks”), and decisions are both conscious and unconscious.  For investors, financial decisions and how we tend to arrive at them are of particular importance.  The following is a cautionary tale of the ‘Top 10’ common biases that creep into the decision making process.  Recognizing and eliminating these biases from your financial choices will make you a sharper and smarter investor… or BBQ judge… or whatever it is that you do…