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Dan Egan
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Dan Egan is the director of behavioral finance and investments at
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Too proud to sell: The disposition effect in behavioral finance
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Dan Egan
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Mar 25, 2013
The disposition effect says investors tend to "sell the winners, and hold onto the losers" for purely emotional reasons. One behavioral economist fell for the classic investment mistake.
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