Investing mistakes to avoid

Source: Chapter 11 of “Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street” by Edward O. Thorp

  • Anchoring
  • Momentum: past prices can predict future prices -> looking at graphs to predict future changes is useless
  • Leverage: proper risk management is necessary to avoid wipeout
  • Conflict of interests:
  • Efficient market hypothesis: consensus often wrong but necessary

Anchoring

Anchoring is an example of human biases