{"id":1108,"date":"2025-03-11T01:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:53:22","slug":"march-madness-investing-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/march-madness-investing-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness &#038; Investing Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March Madness is here\u2014the time of year when brackets get busted, Cinderella stories unfold, and emotions run high. But while the chaos is thrilling on the court, it\u2019s the last thing you want in your investment portfolio. Just like in basketball, investors fall victim to biases that can lead to poor decision-making.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take \u201crecency bias\u201d\u2014the tendency to overvalue recent performance. Just because a team pulls off an upset doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re championship-bound, just like a hot stock doesn\u2019t guarantee long-term success. Then there\u2019s \u201cconfirmation bias\u201d, where fans (and investors) look for information that supports what they already believe. That\u2019s how people get stuck holding onto investments that no longer serve them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And let\u2019s not forget \u201cherd mentality\u201d\u2014if everyone is picking the same team to win it all, does that make it the best choice? Not necessarily, just like following market fads can lead to big losses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid the madness. A solid financial game plan beats emotional investing every time. Let\u2019s build a winning strategy together!\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please contact us through the contact page <a href=\"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/contact-dinergy.htm\">HERE<\/a>, directly to Joe Lind at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:jlind@dinergywealth.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jlind@dinergywealth.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or call Joe at 513-878-0195. Let\u2019s grow together!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Madness is here\u2014the time of year when brackets get busted, Cinderella stories unfold, and emotions run high. But while the chaos is thrilling on the court, it\u2019s the last thing you want in your investment portfolio. Just like in basketball, investors fall victim to biases that can lead to poor decision-making.\u00a0\u00a0 Take \u201crecency bias\u201d\u2014the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing"],"views":4,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}