Let's put it to the test: planner or sinker?

It is always difficult to do well when it comes to markets in times of uncertainty such as those that are accompanying the announcements on tariffs by the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump. One important thing is to have steady nerves and make informed choices, knowing that mistakes are always possible. The important thing is to think things through and move with reason. This is why we are proposing here a test drawn up by Professor Ruggero Bertelli, to help readers understand their own attitudes towards situations in which it was particularly important to also look at their own attitudes in order to avoid behavioural errors.

Below the reader will find a test on the topic: 'forward-looking planner ... or impatient dissipator? - Answer our behaviour in the face of market volatility'. In explaining the meaning of the test, Bertelli warns: 'Every day we fight this battle with ourselves. A market crisis is the ideal testing ground. A planner knows that it is in these moments that opportunities can be seized to increase the long-term return on investment. A dissipator gets scared, closes risk positions and suffers unfair losses. Both attitudes are simultaneously present in us: sometimes the former wins, sometimes the latter. The score on this test suggests at this moment who prevails'.

So a kind of thermometer of our fibrillation in the current phase, where we can see if we lean more towards one or the other of the opposites and to what extent. Remember that each answer gives a score and the sum of the scores places the reader on the scale of personal agitation towards what is happening.