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If you want to become a better investor, you have to look beyond simply the facts and figures—things like portfolio allocation, risk analysis, due diligence. To avoid making the most common investment mistakes, you must do the much harder, yet exceedingly valuable, work that comes from looking inward.
Behavioral psychologists have long talked about the dangers of emotional investing: cashing out of the stock market when prices begin to fall only to return after they’ve gone up again, for example, or limiting your perspective…
