Iran's suspension of U.S. talks triggered an 8% oil spike, a partial recovery, and a predictable wave of retail selling. The research on this pattern is three decades old. The outcome is still the same.

Brent crude has fallen roughly 20% from its April peak. Most Canadian investors are still anchored to the high. Understanding why is what separates a useful advisor conversation from a useless one.

Five days, three simultaneous frameworks, and a TSX that ended the week higher than it started. What changed in the analytical picture, and what advisors need to carry into June.

Canada's Q1 GDP print triggered a news cycle built around one word. Understanding what that word does to investor decision-making is where the advisory opportunity lives.

When headline numbers beat expectations and equity prices still fall, the mental accounting gap between "my bank is profitable" and "my portfolio is fine" widens. That gap is where advisors earn their value.

When markets fall hard on geopolitical shock, investors withdraw from TFSAs to move to safety. The recontribution mistake is the predictable next step, and it costs them in ways they never see coming.

When geopolitical relief rallies arrive, investors sell their winners and hold their losers. The research explains why, and what it costs.

When peace deal headlines send oil prices down 5%, investors with energy gains face a specific cognitive trap. The same bias that made them hold losers too long now makes them lock in winners too early.

Every rumour of a deal sends oil prices lower and energy stocks higher. Behavioural finance research explains why this pattern is dangerous, and why advisors who understand it are positioned to prevent a costly mistake.

When markets bounce on ceasefire optimism, a well-documented psychological mechanism pushes investors toward a mistake they will regret the moment the next headline arrives.

Gold stayed near $4,500 Tuesday while Canadian miners shed 2% to 6%. The divergence is not a market anomaly. It is the availability heuristic doing what it always does: overwriting the correct frame with the most recent one.

Canada's April CPI came in below the worst fears. History is clear on what retail investors do next, and it is rarely right.

Eleven weeks of elevated crude has recalibrated what investors call "normal." The research on anchoring explains why that shift is dangerous — and why the most costly portfolio decisions of 2026 are still ahead.

Markets are selling off this morning not because anything went wrong in Beijing — but because nothing went spectacularly right. That distinction matters enormously for investors, and most of them will not make it.

Two consecutive data surprises are triggering a well-documented cognitive pattern. Here is what the research shows about how investors process sequential bad news, and why the worst decisions tend to follow the clearest-seeming signals.

Markets recovered from the Iran war shock weeks ago. A measurable cohort of retail investors never came back. The research explains why — and what it costs them.