ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Avoiding Overconfidence by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. If I could give just one piece of advice to a trader, it would be: Avoid overconfidence--it could be your worst enemy. Thousands of traders make the mistake of becoming overconfident each month and lose subs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Overconfidence is a cognitive bias which results in our overestimating our abilities to perform a skill or task. In so doing, we see ourselves as better than average and we rate our abilities higher than others would rate us. In financial markets, this