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Behavior
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Do stop-losses actually work? What they protect and what they cost
A stop-loss is a good tool wearing a misleading name. It caps a trade, not a risk — and for long-term investors it usually sells the exact thing they should be holding.
What to do when the market drops — a checklist for the actual moment
Everyone knows the advice. Almost nobody can execute it at 3pm on a red day. Here's what to do instead of deciding, in the order to do it.
When should you sell a stock? The four honest reasons
Almost everyone has a buying process and no selling process. That asymmetry is where most of the damage happens — here are the only four reasons to sell that survive scrutiny.
Seven investing mistakes beginners make (and what each one really costs)
Not the usual list. These are the seven errors that show up over and over when you grade thousands of real decisions — ordered by how much damage they actually do.
Dollar-cost averaging vs lump sum — the honest answer
Lump sum wins more often on the math. Dollar-cost averaging wins more often in practice. Both statements are true, and the gap between them is the whole point.
The psychology of panic selling — why smart people sell at the bottom
Panic selling isn't a knowledge problem. Everyone knows not to sell low. Here's what's actually happening in the moment, and the only defenses that survive contact with a real decline.
Time in the market vs timing the market — what the phrase actually means
"Time in the market beats timing the market" is repeated so often it has stopped meaning anything. Here's the real mechanism behind it, and the one case where it's misleading advice.
The one lesson every market crash teaches — and why most people fail it
Every crash in modern history eventually recovered. The people who got hurt weren't wrong about the market — they were wrong about themselves.
What if you'd invested in Nvidia at the start of the AI boom?
The 2023 AI boom is the trade everyone claims they'd have made. Hindsight makes it obvious. Living through it was anything but.
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