Who’s Decoupling?

We are.

No country.

No market.

No conglomerate.

No anything.

We, as retail investors, are choosing to decouple.

Meaning?

Crash chorus?

Yeah, so?

Louder?

Yes.

Warren Buffett warning?

Yes.

Crash Crash Crash everywhere to be heard?

Yes.

Still we implement our implementables.

Meaning, unperturbed?

Yes.

Why? I mean how? What are you thinking?

Crashes come, crashes go. Look at our market’s graph since inception. Note anything?

Steady growth, decade upon decade. I can see Asian, Dotcom, Housing, CoViD, what have you. Rise, despite. But they say this one’s going to be mother of all.

Mother of this, father of that. Doesn’t affect our strategy.

How?

First up, remember, that speeds are now super. Everything’s happening…

…FAST.

So, if there’s going to be a -90, it’s going to happen…how?

Fast.

Right.

We’ll, as in our own growth market, will V-shape recover…how?

Fast.

Does it affect a multi-decade strategy?

No.

Correct. We proceed with our stuff, irrespective.

And what’s the stuff?

Uno : get fully invested.

Due : Weed upon expense.

Weed weed weed. That’s our chorus. Not crash crash crash.

Tre : Pluck flowers if no weed, upon expense.

Quattro : Groom our superflowers.

Period.

Don’t care about crash, panic, fear, or any such hallucination. We do our job, enjoy our life, and move on to the next challenge, when this one’s on auto.

And that would be…

…Yes?

That would be decoupling, right?

Decoupling is a state of being. You feel it. If you can feel it, you are decoupled.

How does one know?

When the chorus doesn’t affect you, and you go about your stuff joyfully.

It’s as simple as that.

Decoupling X.Y

We’ve…

…had many conversations…

…on the topic of decoupling.

So much so, that I’ve lost count.

The only difference, this time around…

…is the approach.

This time around, we’re handling from centre-point.

Meaning…

…that we are the ones…

…learning how to…

…decouple.

This time it’s not about economies decoupling from other economies…

…or markets decoupling from other markets.

We don’t even care anymore whether that is a myth or…

…whatever.

What economies do to or with each other is not our concern in this discussion.

Here, we are devising methodologies to reconfigure our nervous system, …

…actually, our very DNA, …

…so that we can decouple from market forces, at will, for however long we want to.

Without feeling pangs.

Two questions – How? Why?

Regarding the why, it’s imperative to allow our nerves rest.

Long-term survival. We’re not going to implode, or explode.

It’s about building patterns. This is the how we are addressing. Patterns. Many times. Patterns that take us away from markets, temporarily.

Slowly the pattern comes on auto. We devise a mental and a physical macro for the pattern.

An activity hiatus.

A terminal kill switch activation, with reactivation date.

Family.

Book.

Holiday.

Hobby.

Different…

…work.

Anything that’s not market related. At will, till wilful reactivation.

Again and again, whenever we feel the need, and / or whenever the situation demands.

Over many years, we now have an ingrained reflex. A muscle memory. Allowing us at will, to…

…decouple.

Welcome to Decoupling X.Y.

Define your X and Y. Incorporate into your system. And then…

…decouple at will.