Vanguard estimates that, for investors, avoiding bad behavioural decisions can be worth 1.5% a year in net returns.
But Vanguard’s study didn’t focus on casual traders or retail investors. For those brave degens, the cost of psychological mistakes is usually a lot higher. Life savings can be wiped out, or entire trading accounts blown up in a single morning of FOMO.
Because your biggest enemy isn’t the market or other traders… it’s YOU.
It’s the emotional mistakes you make, the behavioural traps you fall into - chasing losses, coping, FOMO, loss aversion, all of it.
But we’re here to fix that.
Market PSYOPs exists to to tell you about market psychology. To warn you against thinking traps and biases before your P&L takes a hit.
Put simply, we’re here to stop you going on-tilt.
Here’s what to expect:
Storyworthy
Wild stories about psychology and finance, business, markets (somebody’s usually gone on-tilt)
PSYOP
A psychological trap or cognitive bias explained (mostly using memes), and how it’s impacting your money
The Trade
Half-baked trade ideas based on a psychological bias. For anyone with a high risk tolerance
Thinking Trap
How biased are you? Beat the weekly trap - answer drops next edition
Before you get too excited:
Market PSYOPs is stories, pop-psychology, and half-baked trading ideas. It is NOT financial advice. Best to think of it as a community of like-minded gamblers. But if you are having a punt, make sure you restrict your trade size to whatever change you can find down the back of the couch.
And hey, maybe we create a genius portfolio based on psychological insights.
Or maybe we just create the world’s stupidest trading account. Who knows. At least we can all groupthink together.
And away we go.
