Family is a wonderful thing
For a man it is often the first time he realises he loves those closest to him more than his very existence
Is it possible to describe the feeling when your little girl reaches up to hold your hand as you walk together
No sir, I don't believe it is
We are all at a wonderful ball where the champagne sparkles in every glass and soft laughter falls upon the summer air.
We know, by the rules, that at some moment the Black Horsemen will come shattering through the great terrace doors, wreaking vengeance and scattering the survivors.
Those who leave early are saved, but the ball is so splendid no one wants to leave while there is still time, so that everyone keeps asking 'What time is it? What time is it?' but none of the clocks have any hands.
Flirting is not just for women you find attractive. it's for the barista, the bouncer, the guy at the gym, the stranger on the street. warmth is a way of moving through the world. the men who do it naturally never struggle to find opportunity, connection or a reason to smile.
In order to have success in trend-following, you must have an optimistic attitude; knowing it'll all work out. You cannot know what opportunities will flow your way, but you know they will and that all you can focus on (and measure yourself against) is following your system.
Predicting isn’t only unnecessary, it’s dangerous.
No one can predict the markets with any consistency, especially emotional investors. Markets simply do what they do. Patterns seldom repeat. Records are continuously broken. Historical correlations break down. Crazy is constant.
Anxiety is what happens when your brains are bigger than your balls. You're smart enough to know what you should be doing but lack the courage to do it.
This imbalance is what triggers anxiety. The only way to demolish anxiety is to choke it out with ruthless action. This is why you never feel anxious when you're in motion, even if that motion leads to temporary failure.
Anxiety has nothing to do with failure and everything to do with a lack of courage.
Before you go off making statements about how the markets behave now, change the word "now" to "lately". Talk to older people about what the markets were like in the past.
You may consider dusting off those 50-100 year charts. I have a hunch you're gonna need them to survive.
We're wired to feel safer in a group. When in a group, the odds of any one member being harmed seems to fall. For most of human history, this instinct served us well. But in the markets, this thinking can get us killed.