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Understanding investor psychology: risk tolerance vs capacity, loss aversion, panic selling, and behavioural economics applied to investing.
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Risk tolerance is how much volatility you can handle. Risk capacity is how much loss you can afford. Learn the difference and set a safer allocation.
A $10,000 loss and a $10,000 gain are mathematically equivalent. They are not psychologically equivalent. The loss feels worse. Much worse. This asymmetry is called loss aversion, and it is one of the most robust findings in behavioural economics. It...
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