MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity

Investing well is not about the markets—it's about you. The markets will do what they do, which is fluctuate. The question is, as the markets fluctuate, what do you do?

While you may not think that your investment performance is affected by who you are, think again. Recent research has uncovered startling information regarding the relationship between who you are, how you invest, and what that ultimately means for your wallet.

For the past two decades the psychological mistakes of investors h...