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MarcusSelf-directed investor
Discover your Investor Identity
before the Market tests it!
A 10-minute assessment of how you invest.A 10-minute assessment of how you decide as an investor.
- Your investor identity
- Which markets fit you, and which don't
- A chat that explains your result
“You build slowly, but you build to last”
Patience
Waiting for certainty
Index funds
Opportunity Drive
35%
Emotional Stability
75%
“You think in systems, not isolated decisions”
Perspective
Over-analysing context
Theme bets
Adaptability
88%
Conviction Horizon
70%
“You feel uncertainty early and move to protect your stability”
Vigilance
Exiting too early
Bonds
Risk Engagement
28%
Strategic Structure
68%
“You are moved by the story of where something could go”
Vision
Story over evidence
Single stocks
Opportunity Drive
86%
Emotional Stability
58%
The real cost
Not knowing how you behave under pressure costs more than any single bad decision.
You buy high and sell at the first dip.
You keep switching strategies and call it learning.
You have a plan, but pressure changes it.
You sit in cash, waiting for a certainty that never comes.
The real cost
Not knowing how you behave under pressure costs more than any single bad decision.
You buy high and sell at the first dip.
You keep switching strategies and call it learning.
You have a plan but pressure changes it.
You sit in cash, waiting for a certainty that never comes.
Twenty Years, One Market, Three Reactions
In March 2020 the market fell 32% in five weeks. What would you have done?
$10,000, invested in January 2006A simulation. Real market prices, no real money.
Left alone for twenty years$88,000With that behavior$42,00052% less
Same market. Same money. Same twenty years. The only difference is behavior.
It sold three times, always at 25% down. The worst was March 2020: it bought back 11 weeks later, the flat stretch in the orange line, and those weeks cost $8,500.
Where every number here comes from
You pressed a button, so we do not know your own scores. Each button picks one of the sixteen patterns the assessment uses. This one leaves early and comes back late. It scores 45 out of 100 for staying calm, and that score sets the selling point:
score 15sells as soon as the market is 15% downscore 80never sells, whatever happens
score 45 for staying calm → sells when the market is 25% down
The same pattern scores 30 out of 100 for wanting back in. That score sets the buying point:
score 15waits until 90% of the fall has come backscore 85buys after only 30% has come back
score 30 for wanting back in → buys back after 75% of the fall has come back
The pattern above is a stand-in. The one that matters is yours, because the gap on this chart is made of behavior, not of markets. The assessment works out which of the sixteen fits you. The methodology explains how the sixteen were built.
All 3 sales together cost $15,800 at the time. That left less money invested for the next twenty years, which is why the gap ends at $45,700 and not at $15,800.
Real US stock-market prices (Kenneth R. French Data Library), January 2006 to July 2026, dividends included; money out of the market earns the Treasury-bill rate. The rule is checked once a week. The money scale is set so that a fall of the same size looks the same size whenever it happened — otherwise the 54% fall of 2008, on a smaller sum, would almost disappear next to later ones. The three answers model one thing: selling during a fall and buying back later. Nothing else — adding money, rebalancing, changing what you own — is simulated, so this is not a finding that holding always wins. The size of the gap is calibrated against the published shortfall between investor returns and fund returns (Dichev 2007; Morningstar, Mind the Gap). Past prices are not a prediction.
That was a guess about yourself.
3 steps to Reveal Your Investor Identity
1- Answer Simple Behavioral Questions
Answer simple questions about how you respond to risk, uncertainty, opportunity, and market pressure. There are no right or wrong answers.
2- See Your Pattern Take Shape
3- Meet Your Investor Identity
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Six Dimensions Shape Your Investor Pattern.
Your archetype does not come from one trait or one score. It emerges from the way six behavioral dimensions interact.
Strategic Structure23%
Conviction Horizon28%
Emotional Stability95%
Opportunity Drive78%
Adaptability68%
Risk Engagement98%
No dimension is inherently good or bad. Meaning comes from the pattern they create together.
Built on research
A behavioral model rooted in decades of scientific research.
Grounded in behavioral finance and decision science, developed with test-design psychologists into a model you can read for yourself.
See the research behind it- Prospect theoryHow people weigh loss against gain
- Risk toleranceHow financial risk appetite is measured
- Investor personalityHow temperament shapes market behavior
Explore an archetype
Four behavioral families. Sixteen identities.
What investors are discovering
Real patterns. Clearer decisions.
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JamieSelf-directed investor
“I always thought I was just bad at timing. Turns out it's a conviction thing. I second-guess too early and bail on good positions. Honestly worth the ten minutes.”
MR
MarcusSelf-directed investor
“The market-fit section called out that crypto was never going to suit me. I'd been forcing it for two years and blaming myself the whole time. That one hit hard.”
LK
LenaIndex fund holder
“It got my blind spot mostly right. I hold losers too long hoping they come back. Decent, though I'd heard most of it before.”
DR
DariusExperienced investor
“Ten minutes in and I finally had words for why I freeze the moment volatility spikes, even when my plan says hold. Felt seen, honestly.”
NK
NoraNew investor
“The tension part was useful. I chase opportunities but hate the uncertainty that comes with them. No one had put those two together for me before.”
PC
PriyaSelf-directed investor
“I'd dismissed gold for years as boring. Turns out it fits how I behave when pressure builds. That part surprised me, the rest I sort of knew.”
OB
OwenIndex fund holder
“My advisor kept telling me to stay disciplined. The report told me why that's hard for me specifically, and what to watch for. Genuinely useful.”
EH
EthanExperienced investor
“I didn't expect much from a free test. The growth direction is the part I liked. Gave me something to think about, at least.”
SR
SamNew investor
“It read me better than three sessions with a financial coach. It named a tension I'd felt for years but never had language for. Worth every minute.”
ZT
ZoeIndex fund holder
“The bit about adapting versus sticking to a plan was okay. It named something I'd felt but didn't really tell me what to do about it.”
JM
JamieSelf-directed investor
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