Price, value and awareness. The psychology of masses!

Some of you today spoke about price so I’ve opened a new thread. Let’s be real: what is price? Price doesn’t represent real value. It’s a mirror of mass psychology a reflection of fear, delay, emotion, and herd behaviour. If you don’t understand the value of 1 cent, you’ll never grasp the value of 2 and especially the value in between. Markets don’t move when geology changes they move when the crowd finally becomes aware of what was always there. That’s called awareness. But awareness often arrives late, filtered through cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias. Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) traded below 5 cents for years ignored, dismissed, and ridiculed until one day, it wasn’t. Did the ground change? No. It wasn’t magic. It was years of preparation, geological conviction, and delayed recognition. Lincoln Minerals once traded at 7 cents today it trades at 0.005. Did the metals disappear? Did copper, vanadium, zinc, gold, and germanium suddenly lose their global relevance 14 times? Of course not. What changed wasn’t substance it was sentiment. Fear-driven selling, thin liquidity, a delayed JORC, investor fatigue, and anchoring bias based on past prices all played their part. But the mineral system underground? That hasn’t changed in millions of years. Still, most people can’t see it. Why? Because of loss aversion the fear of losing another 20% outweighs the motivation to gain 200%. They sell too early, then chase when the price feels “safe.” That’s classic availability heuristic and herd behaviour in action. Lake Resources ran to $2.50 without production or cash flow then collapsed. Cobre spiked to 40 cents on shallow hype and disappeared. Lindian published impressive copper grades, but without proven continuity or structure, the market hesitated because without geological substance, numbers are noise. Meanwhile, real value goes unnoticed. GreenTech quietly built momentum. WA1 sat at 13 cents before the crowd arrived. And Lincoln? Backed by government involvement, 3D modelling, multiple critical metals and still trading below 1 cent. Value isn’t what you pay it’s what lies beneath. It’s not about how many shares $500 buys it’s about what they represent. Price is a reaction. Value is a position. And the real move happens when no one’s watching not when the crowd finally shows up. Two weeks ago, someone sold LML to me at 0.004. Two days ago, someone else sold at 0.006. Very soon, someone will sell at 1 cent but not to me. I’m no longer accumulating. I’ve secured my 10 million shares. Now I’m just observing watching others pay double, not because the fundamentals have changed, but because their awareness finally caught up. The rocks haven’t moved but the price has. That’s not value rising. That’s awareness spreading. And to those still anchored to old price memories or stuck in fear-driven logic maybe the real opportunity isn’t in the share price itself, but in learning to recognise value before the crowd does. The guy who paid $2.50 for worthless Red Lake shares, and the fellow who sold me LML at 0.004, have more in common than they think: cognitive dissonance and a fundamental lack of awareness when it comes to recognising real value whether it’s Lincoln or Lake. On the other hand, those who bought FMG at 5 cents, and LML shareholders who stepped in at 0.005 or 0.006, are showing something different: awareness, the rarest asset in investing.