When Strengths Are Weaknesses And Weaknesses Are Strengths

A fascinating study conducted by Maria Konnikova studied the financial decision-making of people who displayed a high degree of self-control. A wealth of popular literature hails discipline and emotional self-control as hallmarks of successful trading and investment. The holy grail of trading psychology, it would seem from the trading psychology literature, is to develop a "process" for engaging financial markets that brings positive expected returns--and then replicate that process with self-co...