Daily Archives: January 4, 2022

The Psychology of Trend Reversal

We see rejec­tion and a sense of loss as the pri­ma­ry emo­tions of sud­den trend change. What we thought would occur, is not occur­ring. Our idea of an order­ly mar­ket pro­gres­sion is sud­den­ly dis­rupt­ed; we are jolt­ed out of our secure expec­ta­tions by this intru­sion of the real world. In a sub­tle sense we are dis­ap­point­ed, we are bereft, we expe­ri­ence loss as our expec­ta­tions of the future are rude­ly rebuffed.