Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses the Chinese market sell-off and the investment climate for “buying-the-dip”, which has become a Pavlovian response.
This is a learned reflex that has worked spectacularly well for the past year and a half.
There is of course a risk to operating reflexively in a field that demands intellect, though.
This video post first appeared on July 29 on the Traders’ Insight blog.
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