The stock market is at an all-time high, and investors don’t know what to feel. If you are invested, you may be dreading the drop that comes next. If you are on the sidelines, you may be kicking yourself for missing the rally. Either way, the flood of information isn’t helping. Every day brings a fresh barrage of headlines — tariffs, interest rates, earnings surprises, geopolitical tensions — each one dressed up to sound urgent. The result? Your mind gets jumbled. Anxiety builds. And in that fog, you are more likely to make a decision you will regret. If you think the anxiety is all in your head, consider this: the MSCI US Index has recorded 70 days of swings greater than 1.5 per cent so far in 2026, on an annualised basis. That’s the most since 2020, when the pandemic sent markets into a tailspin with 71 such days. For perspective, between 2010 and 2019, there was only an average of around seven such...