AAII bearish sentiment sits near 40 percent while the VIX stays below 18, a gap the availability heuristic explains better than the headlines do.

Volatility has risen for four consecutive weeks as the tanker war in the Strait of Hormuz escalates, yet investor behaviour shows the opposite of panic. The research explains why that is a warning sign, not reassurance.

AAII's latest sentiment survey shows both readings above their historical averages, and the TSX's Tuesday decline did not come from the headline most investors will blame for it.

Five of the last six trading sessions broke the TSX average daily swing, but two of those five were gains. What is remembered from a week like this is not what happened.

A three-session slide gave way to a sharp bounce as the same war headlines that triggered the selling also powered the snapback, and loss aversion research explains why so many investors read the sequence backwards.

A safe haven story investors have relied on for months is not holding up against this week's escalation, and the data shows exactly where the mechanism broke down.

Barber and Odean’s research on attention-driven buying explains why gold’s surge past $4,650 and retreat below $4,370 is landing hardest on investors who bought the headline, not the asset.

New retirement research shows younger investors abandon markets at the highest rate, just as a fresh Hormuz escalation tests every portfolio's nerve.

The weekend's first US-Iran military exchange in a month caught portfolios positioned for calm. Kahneman and Tversky mapped exactly why quiet weeks make the next shock feel unprecedented.

Anchoring bias explains why this week's strongest bank earnings produced some of the weakest stock reactions.

The TSX closed at a record Tuesday as the VIX held its August range, even through a confirmed tariff escalation and a fresh Iran sanctions round. Anchoring bias, not calm judgment, explains why.

Iran sanctions and Canada's trade retaliation arrived within seventy-two hours of each other. Volatility barely moved, and the psychology behind that gap is the story.

The bond market move that kicked off this month's gold surge reversed within hours. The rally did not, and that gap is the story.

Canadian bank shares and gold miners moved in opposite directions this week, and the reasoning has more to do with which headline landed most recently than with either sector's fundamentals.

Trump paused Section 338 tariffs three hours before the deadline. The market is pricing it as resolved. It isn't.

Investors have learned that Strait of Hormuz headlines are buying opportunities. The mechanism that produced that lesson just changed.