Investment Applications of Operant Conditioning
Here’s how you can apply B.F. Skinner’s work to understanding market behavior and yourself.
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Here’s how you can apply B.F. Skinner’s work to understanding market behavior and yourself.
Being a serious student of the markets is a must for investing success. But the nature of the markets is only part of the intelligent investor’s syllabus. What’s even more important is the lesson of knowing thyself.
Marketers use anchoring to trick you to spend more money, negotiators use anchoring to get in the stronger position, stock investors fall prey to anchoring to their own detriment.
Keynes said that markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Some of the greatest lessons of why that is are found in the history of market corners and short squeezes.
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