Emotions vs. Reason in Stock Trading: When the Market’s Cheering but the Signals Say Run
Co-Founder & CTO of I Know First Ltd. With over 35 years of research in AI and machine learning. Dr. Roitman earned a Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science
Highlights
- How AI helped Dr. Roitman overcome emotional bias and avoid the 2025 market crash
- A personal journey from chemistry to building a professional-grade predictive model for stock markets
- Why emotional discipline — not just data — is key in navigating turbulent financial markets
How I got saved from most of the market crash.
1. I’m not a rational trader, more of an emotional one. In my youth I started investing or you’d say trading. It was not very successful, to say the least. In the 1980’s I bought shares in a little known company Apple Computers. I sold them when I thought IBM was going to kill them.
2. In the early 1990s I bought my first real computer, a PC AT. When windows and MS
