Overconfidence hurts us with investing. Find out if you're overestimating your knowledge.

Emotion, not logic, usually rules our investing habits. Learn to outsmart your emotions and reap higher returns.

See how you can avoid becoming your own worst enemy by answering these eight questions.

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Listen in as Senior Editor Bob Frick interviews Andrew Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering. Lo gives investors insight on how to manage their emotions in this post-crash environment.

To better understand why emotions rule our investing decisions, learn the terms psychologists use to describe our behavior.

Funds have flaws that work against their clients' best interests. Here are some of those shortcomings and what you can do to combat them.

Volatile funds push all the wrong emotional buttons. When they go way up, we get greedy and buy.

Gain a better understanding of how your brain works when you make financial decisions.

What's scary about the herd mentality is how insidiously it gets you to see things differently.

It's not foolproof, but spreading our risk among those different kinds of investments is still a smart strategy.