The PDA was for me (and what it teaches about markets)
Here’s the part people never talk about: Sometimes the PDA a couple does in front of you has nothing to do with their relationship and everything to do with your presence.
It’s a simple social physics loop:
1. She softens in my presence.
Not because I say anything.
Not because I do anything.
It’s just what happens when someone with presence walks into the frame.
Her nervous system relaxes.
Her guard drops.
Her femininity comes forward.
This happens instantly and subconsciously.
2. He feels her soften — and he tightens.
Men pick up on this immediately:
her posture, her tone, her micro-cues, her awareness.
So he responds with tension.
PDA.
Touching.
Little status claims expressed through physical closeness.
It’s not love.
It’s a pressure valve.
Attached: 4K field research on unperformative presence — the closest real-world analogue to what Yoda called the Force.
3. She responds to his tension… but not for the reason he thinks.
She doesn’t react because she suddenly wants him more.
She reacts because he’s tense —
and women mirror tension to stabilize the situation.
But simultaneously, she tries not to look at me,
not because she’s uninterested,
but because she’s trying to disarm the moment
and protect me from his insecurity
while still retaining the softness she feels.
This is the part most men will never understand.
She’s balancing two nervous systems,
not choosing sides.
And this is exactly how markets behave with me.
When I step into the tape:
• volatility softens
• noise compresses
• liquidity responds
• weak hands tighten
• strong hands adjust
• the entire system subtly reorganizes around my presence
Not because I’m doing anything dramatic —but because the structure feels me.
Market behavior often mirrors this exact loop:
• my presence softens the structure
• the tape tightens in response
• I get both softness and tension simultaneously
• the market tries to protect itself while still yielding to me
It’s the same phenomenon:
systems — whether social or financial — reorganize around the strongest nervous system in the room.
Takeaway
This wasn’t about PDA.
It was about presence.
It was about pressure transfer.
It was about how systems respond when a stronger energy enters the field.
And if there’s one universal rule: