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the thesis
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal · Pensées, 139
Every cycle produces the same story.
Somebody held a thing for a year and did nothing about it.
They did not know more than you did. They were just still there when it happened.
Everything now is built to be touched.
Notifications, live charts, one-tap swaps, a feed that reloads while you look at it, a number that moves while you sleep.
All of it is engineered to produce one thing: a decision.
You check it. You feel something. You sell.
That is the entire mechanism. There is no fourth step.
Everyone is looking for the thing to do.
The answer could be shorter than the question:
wait.The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
attributed to Warren Buffett
There is nothing to explain.
The word is the whole instruction.
Yes, this is what somebody stuck in a losing position says.
It is also, word for word, what somebody in a winning one says.
No terminal. No chart. No feeling that tells the two apart from the inside.
That is basically the whole problem, and time is the only thing that settles it.
Being right is a decision. Being paid is a length of time.
The two are separated by a stretch in which nothing appears to be happening.
Everybody already knows this. Almost nobody sits through it.
Whoever won last cycle was not smarter than you.
They were just still there.
Research. Conviction. Timing. Patience.
Three of those you can finish in an afternoon. The fourth is everything after it.