Hey.
From this point onwards…
…it all boils down to…
…stamina.
Theories for market success have been out there, in abundance, since eternity.
Everybody can read how the richest man in Babylon…
…got rich.
Or how compounding works.
Position-sizing.
Entry quantum.
Margin of safety.
Profit run.
Multibaggers.
Engines of income generation.
Entry into the territory of wealth.
Generational wealth-creation. Etc.
Yes. Everybody can read. Or listen. Or both.
Question is…
…how many can follow through?
Of those who set out, how many can remain grounded and focused when the heat is turned up, like now?
Most importantly, how many can finish?
I would estimate that a low single digit percentage walks the talk to successful culmination.
Why?
You see, heat does something critical.
Once it is turned up, it burns out all nervous systems that haven’t been rewired.
Given that we are not born with nervous systems programmed towards market success, we need to rewire them over the years and over the knocks. Once fully rewired, our nervous systems can withstand, pivot, and generate wealth over prolonged strife.
As this crisis continues, more and more players will start to cave in.
Capitulation at lows.
Others will stop all activity owing to fear, but might not sell. They’ve frozen. Better than capitulation.
There will be some who cash out with the intent of getting in lower, cannot then find the courage when the lows come, and then join their frozen compatriots as the reversal arrives and accelerates.
Still others, with funds safely picked away in fixed deposits, will be afraid to bring them over to Equity. Fine. They are behaving as per their risk-pr0file. At least they are in control of their behaviour.
Rewired market entities will be acting. They know what to buy. Markets give ample time to study, and all kinds of preparation will have been done, like, yesterday. These folks will have started buying upon the arrival of their levels. Clockwork. Small entry quanta. Position-sized as per their risk profile. Programmed to keep entering for a long period. That’s how they will have positioned themselves and their liquidities. These entities will show stamina and will outlast everyone to still be buying at market bottoms and slightly beyond. They will emerge with the lowest buying averages, and will make the quickest multiples upon reversal, after which some will pull their principles out, while others will ride their holdings to multibaggers.
Who do you want to be?
It’s ok if you don’t identify with any of these categories. Find your passion elsewhere.
Or, self-PhD to a rewired market mindframe, sooner than later. Preferably – now. This crisis could even just be beginning. No one knows. Since no one also knows how long it will last, for all you know, you could still get a year or two’s great buying ahead.
Wishing you lucrative investing.
