• This refers to the erroneous belief that a person with huge domain knowledge also has the skill to apply such knowledge profitably. By the same logic, a person need not know everything about a field in order to make money in it.
• He only needs to possess the most important and relevant knowledge about the field.
• The green lumber fallacy was first noted by Turkish intellectual Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2012 book Antifragile. Dr. Taleb used the example of a commodity trader who made huge profits by trading green lumber (which refers to freshly cut trees) despite believing that he was actually trading timber that was painted in green.

Source:TH