Here’s what we cover in this episode:

🧠 Behavioral Traps: Why emotions override logic in investing

🎢 Emotional Roller Coaster: Stress, volatility, and poor timing

📱 Fear & FOMO: Social media, headlines, and herd behavior

🔍 Investor Biases: Overconfidence, loss aversion, and regret

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Smart, successful people don’t lose money because they lack intelligence. They lose money because they’re human. In this episode, Scott goes in-depth about the hidden cost of emotional investing and why fear, greed, and headlines often derail even well-built plans. Drawing on behavioral economics and real-world examples, the conversation explains how emotions quietly erode long-term results and what actually works instead.

Dive Into This Episode:

0:00 – Intro

1:13 – The Problem: Emotional Investing

9:54 – Real World Example

12:00 – Behavioral Finance Explained

14:34 – Common Investor Biases

22:05 – The Data

23:19 – The Hidden Risk

23:45 – The Solution: Process over Prediction

26:05 – Best Practices