I used to think money was logical — just numbers moving from one account to another. But the more I watch markets, read financial headlines, or even just check my bank app, the more I realize: it’s emotional. Deeply emotional.
Every chart, every jump, every crash is just a collective mood swing. Hope, fear, greed, relief — plotted as a line that goes up and down. We call it “volatility,” but it’s really just people reacting to uncertainty in synchronized panic.
That’s what makes finance strangely human. Beneath the math and the models, it’s still a story about confidence — what we believe will matter tomorrow, and how that belief changes minute by minute.
I like watching markets not to make predictions, but to notice patterns in behavior. The optimism of a Monday morning. The quiet anxiety before earnings calls. The little bursts of overreaction that say, “we’re still guessing.”
It’s easy to think of finance as cold — spreadsheets, algorithms, tickers. But to me, it’s one of the most emotional systems we’ve ever built. It’s a mirror, reflecting how we feel about the future at scale.
And maybe that’s why I find it interesting. Not for the profits or predictions, but for the reminder that under all those numbers, it’s still just us — hoping, doubting, and trying to make sense of what comes next.