Disposition Effect
Also called: selling winners too early, riding losers
The disposition effect is the documented tendency to sell winners too early and hold losers too long, because realising a loss makes it feel final. It is costly twice over: momentum means winners tend to keep winning, and in a taxable account it's exactly backwards, since harvesting losses and deferring gains is what the tax code rewards.
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