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Mental Models: Salience Bias - Fear and Uncertainty: #42

Be the courageous investor! Fear linked to 3 things: 1: To little information 2: Potential Threat 3: Helplessness Investing is linked to 2 things: 1: Fear 2: Greed The Salience Bias is linked to fear and uncertainty and your primal brain functions in your amygdala. There are 2 types of cognition 1)hot and 2)cold. Hot cognition is primal and linked to lymbic system, while your cold cognition is your rational view. Engage your investing process and training established during cold cognition and NOT during points of fear motivated by investing or hot news cycle (i.e. hot cognition). @ 20 mins in review the Papa John Pizza stock effect - use that cold cognition and eliminate the fear! -Thank you to all who have bought our book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$” - Please write a review on Amazon http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE. The sales of the book support the Mental Models Podcast directly! Positive reviews on Amazon increase the likelihood that others will become aware if the book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$”. - BUY BOOK “Understanding Behavioral BIA$” http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE | Behavioral finance advice and solutions. #mentalModels This book will help you overcome the biases that are keeping you from investment success! Authored by Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D. & George Baxter, JD, CFA your hosts of Mental models Podcast. Published by Business Expert Press Behavioral Finance Book AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE Do you want strategies to make better financial decisions? Do you need a translational guide to Thinking Fast and Slow? Do you want to be a better investor and earn more money? If you said yes to any or all of the above questions then this book is for you! #UnderstandingBehavioralBias

Mental Models: Avoid Rationalizing a Stock that is a Lemon: #41

Rationalization and thesis drift is akin to wrestling with muddy pigs... it’s slippery and you will lose $$$. For investors ”thesis drift” is the tendency to rationalize bad news and come up with fresh reasons to still like a stock. Don’t accommodate your viewpoint for a group of facts that you were not previously aware of. Consistency Bias: don’t flip-flop! -Thank you to all who have bought our book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$” - please write a review on Amazon http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE. The sales of the book support the Mental Models Podcast directly! Positive reviews on Amazon increase the likelihood that others will become aware if the book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$”. - BUY BOOK “Understanding Behavioral BIA$” http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE | Behavioral finance advice and solutions. #mentalModels This book will help you overcome the biases that are keeping you from investment success! Authored by Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D. & George Baxter, JD, CFA your hosts of Mental models Podcast. Published by Business Expert Press Behavioral Finance Book AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE Do you want strategies to make better financial decisions? Do you need a translational guide to Thinking Fast and Slow? Do you want to be a better investor and earn more money? If you said yes to any or all of the above questions then this book is for you! #UnderstandingBehavioralBias

Investment Process V: Post mortem: #40

“Understanding Behavioral Bia$” follow along with book by Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA, (Chapter 8) while listening to this podcast. BUY on Amazon https://amzn.to/2XHtsOE (copy and paste). This podcast is fifth in the investment process series. It is the planning up from the matters. #1 tip to avoid pain is to use stop loss techniques! -BUY BOOK “Understanding Behavioral BIA$” http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE | Behavioral finance advice and solutions. #mentalModels This book will help you overcome the biases that are keeping you from investment success! Authored by Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D. & George Baxter, JD, CFA your hosts of Mental models Podcast. Published by Business Expert Press Behavioral Finance Book AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE Do you want strategies to make better financial decisions? Do you need a translational guide to Thinking Fast and Slow? Do you want to be a better investor and earn more money? If you said yes to any or all of the above questions then this book is for you! #UnderstandingBehavioralBias Visit mentalmodelspodcast.com for upcoming talks and show notes. SOLD OUT Talk on Money and Your Brain: How Cognitive Biases Impact Investing with Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA. 01/23/2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM Cognitive biases are often a result of your brain's attempt to simplify information processing. They are rules of thumb that help you make sense of the world and reach decisions with relative speed. Unfortunately, these biases sometimes trip us up, leading to poor decisions and bad judgments. A neuroscientist and a hedge fund manager will look behind the curtain of your conscious mind and take a deep dive into cognitive biases that impact your financial success. Together they will identify strategies to slow you down so you avoid unnecessary risk and make better decisions.  Read more about this topic in Dr. Daniel Krawczyk & George Baxter, JD, CFA latest book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$: A Guide to Financial Decision Making”. Sponsored By: Bank of Texas Where & When Brain Performance Institute 2200 W Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX 75235

Mental Models: Market & Macro Nonsense: #39

Recap of general market trends experienced in 2019 and interpret what they might mean for the economy in 2020. The expansion is the longest we have see, we are now beyond what it occurred from 1990-2000. Growth has been tepid so it might continue. We discuss economic indicators and historical trends from the past. BUY BOOK “Understanding Behavioral BIA$” http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE | Behavioral finance advice and solutions. #MentalModels This book will help you overcome the biases that are keeping you from investment success! Authored by Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D. & George Baxter, JD, CFA your hosts of Mental models Podcast. Published by Business Expert Press Behavioral Finance Book AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE Do you want strategies to make better financial decisions? Do you need a translational guide to Thinking Fast and Slow? Do you want to be a better investor and earn more money? If you said yes to any or all of the above questions then this book is for you! #UnderstandingBehavioralBias Visit mentalmodelspodcast.com for upcoming talks and show notes. SOLD OUT Talk on Money and Your Brain: How Cognitive Biases Impact Investing with Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA. 01/23/2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM Cognitive biases are often a result of your brain's attempt to simplify information processing. They are rules of thumb that help you make sense of the world and reach decisions with relative speed. Unfortunately, these biases sometimes trip us up, leading to poor decisions and bad judgments. A neuroscientist and a hedge fund manager will look behind the curtain of your conscious mind and take a deep dive into cognitive biases that impact your financial success. Together they will identify strategies to slow you down so you avoid unnecessary risk and make better decisions.  Read more about this topic in Dr. Daniel Krawczyk & George Baxter, JD, CFA latest book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$: A Guide to Financial Decision Making”. Sponsored By: Bank of Texas Where & When Brain Performance Institute 2200 W Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX 75235  01/23/2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM

Mental Models: Investing & Behavioral Bias in an Election Year: #38

How politics might influence the stock market in an election year! All of this while the standing president of the United States is under investigation for impeachment by the Senate. What are your predictions for the next president of the United States of America? Which stocks do you seeing impacted? @ 11:30 minutes George discusses his stock pick that could be influenced by the election year and why. Listen in. BUY BOOK “Understanding Behavioral BIA$” http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE | Behavioral finance advice and solutions. #mentalModels This book will help you overcome the biases that are keeping you from investment success! Authored by Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D. & George Baxter, JD, CFA your hosts of Mental models Podcast, it's not a brain in a jar. Published by Business Expert Press Behavioral Finance Book AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON http://amzn.to/2XHtsOE Do you want strategies to make better financial decisions? Do you need a translational guide to Thinking Fast and Slow? Do you want to be a better investor and earn more money? If you said yes to any or all of the above questions then this book is for you! #UnderstandingBehavioralBias Visit mentalmodelspodcast.com for upcoming talks and show notes. SOLD OUT: Talk on Money and Your Brain: How Cognitive Biases Impact Investing with Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA. 01/23/2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM Cognitive biases are often a result of your brain's attempt to simplify information processing. They are rules of thumb that help you make sense of the world and reach decisions with relative speed. Unfortunately, these biases sometimes trip us up, leading to poor decisions and bad judgments. A neuroscientist and a hedge fund manager will look behind the curtain of your conscious mind and take a deep dive into cognitive biases that impact your financial success. Together they will identify strategies to slow you down so you avoid unnecessary risk and make better decisions.  Read more about this topic in Dr. Daniel Krawczyk & George Baxter, JD, CFA latest book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$: A Guide to Financial Decision Making”. Sponsored By: Bank of Texas Where & When Brain Performance Institute 2200 W Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX 75235  01/23/2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM