The margin between panic and procedure
Markets invite stories. Stories invite urgency. Urgency invites mistakes. A procedure—written while calm—is a margin against panic.
When you document allocation rationale in advance, you give your future self a memo instead of a mirror. The memo is not sacred; it can change when life changes. But it prevents the worst trades: the ones made to escape the feeling of not knowing.
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