Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To

[FadeThePublic]

The pub market on Saturday evenings shapes prices in ways the sober Monday analyst then bets against.

The drunk crowd producing the distortion.

The sober analyst identifying and fading the distortion.

The same person who is the drunk crowd on Saturday might be the sober analyst on Monday.

Betting against the decisions of your own compromised state from a later sober state.

The market as the place where different versions of the same person occasionally face each other without knowing it.

 

[DublinDegen]

betting against the decisions of your own compromised state from a later sober state...

yes...

there were periods where the monday morning check of the settled bets from the weekend felt specifically like reviewing what the other version of me had done...

not quite my decisions...

made by me...

but by a me operating under conditions the monday version didn't endorse...

and the monday version settling the financial consequences of what the saturday version had decided...

the two versions sharing an account...

only one of them having placed the deposit...