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[Tor]

i am just curious to know any explanation. Theoretically should fall at same speed as rises. Thanks.

[Mtrader]

Fear is strong than GREED?

[Islander]

i am just curious to know any explanation.

Theoretically should fall at same speed as rises.

Thanks.

I think it might be gravity?

[fib_1618]

Theoretically should fall at same speed as rises.

Humans are slow to embrace constructive change, but quick to panic.

Not having control, nor knowing what the future holds, are both prominent in both of these emotional (price) reactions and come in varying degrees. This is what causes compression in many of the analytical tools and price patterns we use as technicians that forecast such events in the first place, and the assumed reaction based on past indications of similar set ups.

Fib

[Russ]

It is just simple animal instincts, any animal including humans are slow to trust, to tame. Fear is a survival instinct, because death in the jungle can come very fast!

[mss]

i am just curious to know any explanation.
Theoretically should fall at same speed as rises.
Thanks.

Not willing to buy when people wont to sell = decline, does not need a lot of vol.

Not willing to sell when people wont to buy = rise, does need some vol.

Simply put, prices can fall without help, but need help to rise.

JMHOFWIW,
mss

[calmcookie]

Red blood is heavy .... sinks faster.

[raleigh]

stock mkt heights = dizziness = nose bleeds = exsanguination = fatal.

[spielchekr]

There's more than one way to boil a frog.

[linrom1]

i am just curious to know any explanation.

Theoretically should fall at same speed as rises.

Thanks.

I think that it has less to do with market psychology than with simple fact that after years of accumulations, institutions have just more shares to offload in a changing market.