The market has bulls, bears… and then there are parrots. 🦜
Not the Wall Street kind — the human kind. You know them: the guy at the dinner table who can’t get through dessert without repeating something he read on Bloomberg that afternoon. “Tech stocks are due for a correction.” Squawk. “Crypto halving cycle!” Squawk.
Meanwhile, the room quietly checks out. Because here’s the thing: nobody actually wants to sit next to a Bloomberg parrot. They want a person. Someone who can talk about books, or bad Netflix endings, or the Yankees’ bullpen collapse, without turning every anecdote into a chart.
I call it the Dinner Party Portfolio: diversify your conversational assets. If all you bring is markets, you’re overexposed. Talk about cooking, travel, movies, your weird uncle’s obsession with model trains. That way, when markets crash, you don’t crash the vibe with them.
Here’s the paradox: the more invisible you are socially as a trader, the sharper you tend to be in private. Why? Because you’re not burning your conviction out loud. You’re saving it for the trades that matter.
So next time someone leans in at brunch and says, “Got any stock tips?” — shrug, change the subject, pass the waffles. The less you talk, the more you see. And the more you see, the better you play the game.
🥞 Key takeaway: Nobody ever got invited back to brunch for reciting their P&L.
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