What is Anchoring? a Behavioral Finance phenomenonIf you have an investment that has experienced a decrease in value significantly, and you decided to keep and sell at your entry price, please read this article it may help you to make a better decision.
Before we go to the main educational point, keep in mind those who bought tech stocks at the market peak in 2000-2001, waited 15 years to get even..!
Educational Point:
Anchoring
The concept is part of the field of behavioral finance, which studies how emotions and other extraneous factors influence economic choices.
In the context of investing, one consequence of anchoring is that market participants with an anchoring bias tend to hold investments that have lost value because they have anchored their fair value estimate to the original price rather than to fundamentals. As a result, market participants assume a greater risk by holding the investment in the hope the security will return to its purchase price. Market participants are often aware that their anchor is imperfect and attempt to make adjustments to reflect subsequent information and analysis. However, these adjustments often produce outcomes that reflect the bias of the original anchors.
Examples:
1-DASH:
2-FB:
3-CVNA:
4-CRWD:
5- ZM:
6- COIN:
7-SPOT:
8- NFLX:
9-PTON:
10- RNG:
these are just some examples of stocks that lost more than half of their value in the past few months or weeks..!
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Moshkelgosha
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Reference article:
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