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Originally posted by aniesbaswedan:
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I don't have to speculate. I can know for sure whether a person is in profit or suffering massive loss or anything else in between by simply observing their behaviour and their reactions to things. Like I said people lie all the time but results don't. The results in this context are people's emotions, which are the by-products of the circumstances impacting them. In almost all cases those emotions would build up until they eventually manifest in very distinct behaviours. Online forums are among some of the most accessible mediums where the behaviours are easily recognised. For example: people who are suffering from a massive loss or upsetting level of profit erosion would be bitter and angry all the time, or lash out at people as part of an unconcious defence mechanism called "displacement". The inevitable disparaging comments that those people use tend be based on their own pain and suffering, because they are the most accessible to use. The process is called "projection". So that is one example, others resort to inventing complete lies and then attempt to convince themselves of the lies by retelling them to others over and over. There are many other examples and all of them follow very distinct rules if all of the outliers (like brain damage for example) are excluded.
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agree.....many investors spend too much time convincing themselves that their decisions are right.......even if they have been proved wrong.
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