Mel Abraham#1 Best Selling Author, Money Mentor

When Emotions Go Up, Financial Intellect Goes Down

21 May 2026 · 1 min

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CPA Mel Abraham explains how fear, excitement, and panic sabotage investment decisions. Fear makes people sell too early, excitement makes them buy too early, and panic causes them to exit right before markets recover. The costliest mistakes aren't the obvious ones but the emotional ones.

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Fear makes you sell when you should hold. Excitement makes you buy when you should wait. Panic makes you pull out when the market's about to recover. See, I've been a CPA for 30 years, and the most expensive financial decisions I've seen were not the dumbest ones. They were the most emotional ones. Clarity is a math problem. Emotion is a feeling, and feelings make terrible financial advisors. And here's the pattern I keep seeing.