By doing this, I will sometimes miss the trade altogether, but avoiding high-risk or impulsive trades can really make a difference in your bottom line.

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You are high-energy or impulsive to the point of being impatient.

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Decision fatigue can also explain other undesirable managerial behaviors, including losing focus in meetings, getting angry with colleagues, or making impulsive, irrational decisions without considering the consequences.

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High-risk students were classed as those with certain personality traits, including having anxiety problems or "low" moods, as well as others judged to be impulsive or thrill-seekers.

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Teen drivers with ADD or ADHD "are impulsive, highly distractible and clumsy, can't pay attention to the roadway and they get bored easily, " he said.

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Moreover, surely he is a touch too impulsive, or certainly unpredictable, for conservative tastes: he is famous for having resigned on three occasions from ministerial posts, the last time in September last year when he was interior minister in the Socialist-led government of his friend, Lionel Jospin.

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From the charts it is clear that the rally in IWM lacks the impulsive nature of the action in SPY or QQQ.

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If we want to reduce the number of homicides (or suicides for that matter), making it difficult to get immediate access to guns can help reduce impulsive behaviors.

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Impulsive behavior is appealing: In the heat of the moment, you want that piece of cake or that pair of shoes, but you are not thinking about the consequences.

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