The bias has a name
Action bias. Doing something feels like control. Mostly it is just cost.
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A loss you sat through stings about twice as hard as the same loss after you acted. So the brain reaches for the button. The scoreboard never asks how it felt.
02
In a fall the honest question is not what should I do. It is does this change the plan I wrote when the market was calm. Almost always the answer is no.
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In the moment you cannot tell the goal from the save. So decide before the shot. A rule holds the center. A mood dives.
Standing still in a crash is not doing nothing. It is the hardest, best paid thing you will do all year.
Find out which crash you can actually sit through, before you are standing in one.
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