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Trading is Still Hazardous to Your Wealth

By Alexander Wetterling | Apr 6, 2015

So you think you are an above-average investor? Svenson (1981) asked Americans and Swedes whether they were above-average drivers. His findings were that more than 90% of Americans and about 70% of Swedes thought of themselves to be more skillful drivers than the average. The impossibility of these perceptions demonstrates the existence of overconfidence bias among humans.

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Profit from Pessimism: Finding Value When a Company’s Outlook is Poor

By Andrew Stotz | Apr 3, 2015

My research covering 4,000 companies across the world shows that, over the past 22 years, financial analysts have been wrong in their earnings forecasts about 33% of the time.

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