Indices · Index process and review · lesson 7 of 9 · 7 min read · David Alexander
Outcome bias, and why gaps make it worse
outcome bias
Judging a decision by how it turned out rather than by what was known when it was made. On an index it is unusually damaging, because the overnight gap breaks the link between process and result more completely than anything in a continuously traded market.
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