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The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

IFB29: Betrayal by Recency Bias and Other Psychological Factors

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Andrew Sather

Investing, Business

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 29 of the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today's show, we will discuss some of our thoughts on biases that can affect your investment decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast.

0:06.4

You're tuned in to the Investing for Beginners Podcast.

0:12.0

Finally, Step-by-step premium investment guidance for beginners.

0:18.0

Led by Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern to decode

0:24.2

industry jargon silence crippling confusion and help you overcome emotions

0:30.5

by looking at the numbers.

0:49.9

Your path to financial freedom starts now. All right, folks, well, welcome to Investing for Beginners Podcast. I'm Dave Ahearn. We have Andrew Sather tonight. Tonight, we're going to talk about investing with your

0:54.9

brain. We're going to talk a little bit about how your thoughts can affect the

1:01.0

decisions that you make when you invest.

1:04.0

Charlie Munger is one of my big heroes and he has written many, many great articles,

1:10.0

speeches, a few books, about biases.

1:14.3

And tonight we're gonna talk about some of the more common biases.

1:18.2

And Andrew is gonna go ahead and start us off

1:20.2

by talking about the recency bias, or bias, excuse me.

1:24.0

Yeah, so obviously we're all human beings and something I love to constantly

1:30.3

preaches how the stock market's very emotional. We got fear, we got greed, it's because

1:35.1

it's made up of all these people. And there are some common psychological aspects that we as human beings all share that as investors it can really affect the way we behave and

1:49.8

many of times we're not really aware that this these are things that are

1:54.0

influencing our decisions. So if we can kind of cut that off at the beginning

1:58.2

before it can really negatively affect us it can help our performance.

2:03.7

So, recency bias, this is the idea that something that just happened is more likely to happen.

2:11.6

So an obvious one example of this

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