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New research revealed that the biggest investors in the world don't make the best decisions when selling stocks.
This came to light when an investor's stock selling decision was compared to a strategy which is almost like throwing a dart at a list of names that exist in their portfolio. If their clients had instead hired the monkey with darts to randomly choose which stocks to sell, the client's portfolios would have earned 0.8 percentage points more per year.
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Our poor decision-making is tied to our thinking.
Investors use System 2, the more deliberative, rational way when making buying decisions. And they use System 1 the automatic, instinctual way when making selling decisions.
When investors thought more deliberately about selling the stock, their decisions improved.Ā
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