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Cold-Hand Fallacy

The mirror error to the hot-hand fallacy: believing a losing streak signals lost skill rather than variance. Causes traders to stop trading entirely after consecutive losses, often missing the rotation into a new meta.

See also
Psychology Hot-Hand Fallacy The mistaken belief that a winning streak signals durable skill rather than noise. Causes traders to size up dangerously after consecutive wins, producing drawdowns larger than the streaks that preceded them. → Psychology Recency Bias Overweighting recent events when forming judgments. In memecoins: treating the last three trades as definitive evidence of skill or its loss. Produces the hot-hand fallacy (size up after wins) and the cold-hand fallacy (stop trading after losses), both of which are expensive errors. → Culture Meta The dominant narrative theme across the market at a given moment. Where a narrative belongs to one coin, the meta is the category the market is currently rewarding. A coin with a strong narrative inside a dead meta still fails; a mid-tier narrative inside a hot meta can run. →
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