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Tim Richards

Author, Owner of The Psy-Fi Blog
Contributor's Links: The Psy-Fi Blog Book: The Zeitgeist Investor
Tim Richards is a blogger, researcher and advocate of behavioral finance. He owns the Psy-Fi Blog, a sideways look at psychology and finance. Mr Richards is also the author of The Zeitgeist Investor. In 'The Zeitgeist Investor: Unlocking The Mind of the ...more
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On Dinosaurs And Dividends
Monday, March 30, 2020 8:37 AM EDT
Right now investors are experiencing their own version of the K-Pg event, with whole countries going into lockdown as homo sapiens once more shows its surprising capacity to act collectively when faced with real and present danger.
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Pandemiconomics
Saturday, March 28, 2020 5:30 AM EDT
The pandemic that’s upon us is – obviously – a complete surprise, one that couldn’t be planned for. Understandably governments are reacting in real-time to an unfolding threat in the best way that they can. It’s – as they say – a Black Swan event.
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Anchors A-Weigh!
Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:59 AM EDT
In these uncertain times, as the Covid-19 virus moves across the planet, we’re seeing markets yo-yoing with wild price fluctuations on almost a daily basis. Jumps or falls of over 5% are commonplace.
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Markets Are A Confidence Trick
Saturday, March 21, 2020 12:13 PM EDT
Many investors are experiencing the real downside of stock markets for the first time. Suddenly they’re no longer placid, happy holiday resorts where riches gently roll to shore simply by waiting. A volcano has erupted.
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Forecasts? I Haven't Got A Clue
Monday, April 16, 2018 8:12 AM EDT
We predict things all the time, we can't help ourselves. And in the small world that constitutes our immediate bubble of experience, those predictions may have some validity. But in the big world that we inhabit they often don't.
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Cursed By Momentum
Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:30 PM EDT
Although most investors have no edge on the market there's a proportion of them that persist in trading actively, the main effect of which is to enrich their brokers.
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Bias In Action
Monday, February 12, 2018 10:15 AM EDT
The recent sharp correction in markets has clearly surprised a lot of investors.
In this article: SPX
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Putting Pro-Innovation Bias On The Blockchain
Monday, April 24, 2017 2:37 PM EDT
Blockchain is most commonly associated with Bitcoin but is, in fact, a separate innovation upon which the world's least efficient payment system is built.
In this article: BITCOMP
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Unbanked But Not Unwise
Monday, April 10, 2017 7:38 AM EDT
This disengagement has allowed banks to engage in practices that make the behavior of the alternative lenders, who aren't exactly a byword for benevolence, look positively altruistic.
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Age Makes You Happier - And Poorer
Monday, April 3, 2017 11:28 AM EDT
The age related positivity effect predicts that people of seventy and above will generally avoid any news that contradicts their existing opinions and will make increasingly poor decisions based on outdated or biased information.
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Blindsided By Brexit Bias
Monday, July 4, 2016 4:02 AM EDT
Brexit bias is a casebook example of what Charlie Munger calls the Lollapalooza Effect, where a number of different psychological issues combine to cause a cascade.
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Meme Reversion
Friday, March 25, 2016 1:29 PM EDT
Gravity defying super-stocks do occur from time to time, companies which happen upon some moat, establish their business and then successfully defend their margins against all and sundry...
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Building An IKEA Portfolio
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 1:55 PM EDT
The idea that less is sometimes more, and that if you actually have to spend weeks of your life analyzing a company in order to determine whether or not to invest in it is probably an indication that you shouldn’t, is anathema to some investors.
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Less Is More
Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:20 PM EDT
Much market analysis operates on the assumption that more data is better – more data leads to more accurate results. Out in the real world, however, we don’t have the luxury of this kind of analysis. This leads to errors which we call biases.
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Behavioral Bias 101: #2 Wishful Thinking Permanently High
Thursday, March 3, 2016 4:39 AM EDT
Wishful thinking is the idea that whatever we want to be true affects what we believe to be true.
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The Chart Illusion
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:01 AM EDT
The idea that charts can be self-fulfilling and that adherents are simply trading against noise in the system is compelling.
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