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 failed strike, a legalized union movement, and a century of patient negotiation explain why the calendar stops today, and why the discipline behind it still describes good client relationships.

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.

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.

A hot US inflation print undid four sessions of declining Government of Canada yields within hours, while equity volatility barely moved and two unrelated good-news stories pulled the TSX in different directions at once.

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.

Monday's decline was 0.17%. The instinct it triggers in clients sitting on a year of record gains is not nearly so small.

Friday's gold and oil decoupling was real. Assuming it holds without the Hormuz deal actually closing is the availability heuristic at work.

The Fed's split decision and a fresh round of strikes on Iran sent the TSX down 415 points in an afternoon. Less than eighteen hours later, the fear that drove the selling was already fading, and that gap is where the research says money gets lost.

Iran's overnight missile attack on US forces sent WTI crude surging as much as six percent. Gold, the asset built for exactly this kind of shock, opened lower and recovered only to roughly where it started. The split reveals how investors are pricing the same war through two separate ledgers.

WTI's third straight losing session dragged gold down with it Tuesday, ending Monday's brief decoupling. Research on the disposition effect predicts how clients who bought last week's peak will respond, and it is not by selling.

Houthi missiles struck two Saudi Aramco refineries Saturday, the first direct hit on the kingdom's oil infrastructure in four years. The bigger price move came from something with no pictures at all: a quiet, unannounced pause in US strikes on Iran.

Wednesday's record TSX close and Thursday's reversal, paired with gold's drop as Brent crossed $100, show why recent and vivid moves distort judgment more than the data itself.

The TSX's sharpest rebound in weeks came one session after its worst close in eight, and the clients who reacted to Monday's headlines are the ones who missed it.