Execution-Based Finance: Becoming Mr. Market

Who is the elusive Mr. Market we were taught to fear?

We were warned that Mr. Market is the modern-day Medusa — that to look too closely would mean paralysis, even ruin.

To engage with him emotionally was to invite destruction.

To predict him was folly.

To outmaneuver him? Impossible.

But they never finished the myth.

Perseus did not defeat Medusa by confr…