4 Investor Biases to Watch out for

4 Investor Biases to Watch out for

From Keep it Simple by assetbuilder

November 20, 2025 · 11 min · Episode 105

About this episode

Joey Badinger discusses four key investor biases that can sabotage investment portfolios.

Are you accidentally sabotaging your own portfolio? In this must-watch episode of the Keep It Simple Podcast, Joey Badinger – Lead Advisor at AssetBuilder – reveals the 4 behavioral biases that even professional investors battle every single day. Recorded from AssetBuilder’s headquarters in Plano, Texas, this short but powerful episode will help you spot and defeat the mental traps that cause most people to buy high, sell low, and underperform the market. Whether you’re a DIY investor or work with an advisor, understanding overconfidence, recency bias, herd behavior, and confirmation bias is the difference between building real wealth and just spinning your wheels. Timestamps (only the big 5-10 moments): 00:00 – Intro & Important Disclaimer 00:40 – Welcome from Joey Badinger (Plano, TX) 01:15 – Why even the pros at AssetBuilder aren’t immune to these biases 01:45 – Bias #1: Overconfidence – thinking you can consistently beat the market 04:50 – Bias #2: Recency Bias – “This time it’s different” & panic selling 06:50 – Bias #3: Herd Behavior (FOMO) – the GameStop lesson & buying high 08:50 – Bias #4: Confirmation Bias – only listening to news that agrees with you 10:15…

People in this episode

Host: Joey Badinger

Topics covered

  • investor biases
  • behavioral finance
  • market psychology

Keywords

  • overconfidence
  • recency bias
  • herd behavior
  • confirmation bias

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Keep It Simple

Places: Plano, Texas, TX

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