What You Need to Know About The Sunk Cost Effect & Trading

Our minds tend to focus on costs that cannot be recovered and hence are irrelevant to future decision making - the sunk cost bias

A close relative of loss aversion is the sunk cost effect (or bias), where traders refuse to exit loss making positions because they think that doing so would be “wasting” the amount lost.

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