Investor Brain Type

🧻 The Paper Hands

You sell at the first sign of green.

Only 10.0% of players get this type

gistgarden.com · Investor Brain

You're not someone who never makes money — you make it at +8%. A stock ticks up a little and that voice in your head starts yelling "sell now, it's about to drop back," so you sell. Then you watch it climb another 60% over the next three months while you tell yourself "at least I didn't lose." You check your portfolio so often the app recognizes you. Your most-used phrase: "I was going to buy it."

The biases pulling your strings

Loss Aversion

You feel the pain of a loss about twice as strongly as the pleasure of an equal gain — so you scramble to lock in any paper profit before it can disappear.

Recency Bias

The memory of the most recent dip drowns out the long-run fact that markets tend to climb.

One way to fight it: Cut your portfolio-checking from 10 times a day to once a week. You'll discover most of those moves never needed you to do anything at all.

For educational and entertainment purposes only. This is not financial advice, a professional assessment, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. The biases described are general behavioral tendencies, not a diagnosis. Provided as-is.