Wall Street's default mode — frequent trades, market commentary, constant repositioning — exists primarily to generate billable transactions, not to compound client capital. The visible 'busyness' of investment professionals is itself a sales artifact: it signals competence to the client even when the optimal action is to do nothing. Recognizing the performance as performance is the first step toward ignoring it.
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