Recency Bias and Investing

23 Oct 2024 · 1 min
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In this short monologue, the speaker shares a personal experience at Red Rocks where he chose to leave his jacket at home after recent concerts where a jacket proved unnecessary. The decision backfired when the weather turned cold, serving as a vivid illustration of recency bias—overweighting recent outcomes and neglecting established principles. He then connects this cognitive bias to investing, warning that a streak of a few big wins can lead investors to become overzealous, mistakenly attributing success to skill rather than favorable market conditions or luck, and prompting them to repeat the same strategies without proper analysis.

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