There’s a reason the best performing brokerage accounts belong to people who forgot their password or died. No panic selling. No reacting to headlines. No emotional decisions at 2am watching futures.

Just ownership. Compounding. Time.

Right now the market is doing what it always does during periods of chaos. It is separating people from their best ideas at exactly the wrong moment. The headlines are designed to feel urgent. The volatility is designed to feel permanent. Neither is true.

The investors who will look back at March 2026 with satisfaction are not the ones who moved fastest. They are the ones who did nothing when doing nothing was the hardest thing to do.

I have been through enough market cycles to know one thing with certainty. The decisions that feel most uncomfortable in the moment are usually the ones that age the best.

Buy right. Sit tight.

That is not a passive strategy. It is the hardest discipline in investing. It requires you to have done the work before the storm arrived, so that when the storm comes you already know the answer.

If you have not done the work, the storm will define your decisions.