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So this explains why they're acting so retarded https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/generation-reddit-why-younger-investors-really-lost-the-gme-stock-war-1030050671

Key points-

>an entire generation of investors who are far more emotional than their predecessors.

>These investors are “characterized as having the highest rating for personalization of loss while still having high risk ratings,” explains researchers Ryan Wood and Judith Lynne Zaichkowsky in the Journal of Behavioral Finance. “In other words, this group does not mind taking risks, but feels terrible when they lose money.”

>> No.28050664

>>28050559
>But the rest of it comes from younger investors’ natural tendency to personify losses. If losing money makes you stupid, then simply never realize those losses. It’s an age-old strategy of short term self-care with long-term costs.

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>>28050559
Screencapped.

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>>28050812
neat