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You were seriously worried about the banks going under?
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You were seriously worried about the banks going under?
Why not? The stories I heard, subsequently, from people on the operations side of the business would have stopped the hearts of the public if they had known what was going on. The banks weren't meeting any of the calls at the brokerage firms. On Tuesday morning, we were within hours of the whole thing totally collapsing. So my caution was well advised. I think my fear of a depression is related to my father graduating college in 1929. If you talk to people who got out of college at that time, it is as though a ten-year period is missing from their lives. There was just nothing substantial going on in this country. That always stuck with me, because I feared it so much. I think that is one of the reasons why I don't try to increase my earnings geometrically. On the day of the crash, when I looked at my son in 102 his crib, I thought, I don't want him ever to ask me, "Dad, why didn't you do everything you could have done?" When did you start trading again? Wednesday of that week. It was funny because I started out trading only one or two S&P contracts at a time. The S&P was trading in full point increments [equivalent to $500 per contract, compared to $25 for a minimum tick], and I didn't know how to handicap what was going on. From past experiences, I knew we were in some sort of opportunity period, but they were rewriting the rale book. My attitude is: Never risk your family's security. I didn't need to make any more money at that point. On Wednesday, the market got up to an area where I thought it should be shorted. I ended Wednesday short twelve S&P contracts, which for me was a miniscule position. That night, Bob Prechter [editor of the Elliott Wave Theorist, a widely followed advisory letter] put out a negative hotline message. The next morning, the market was under tremendous pressure, partially because of that recommendation, but mainly because one of the biggest fund managers in the country was trying to liquidate a monster long position. It has been stated that he lost $800 million during that period. I called the S&P pit just before the opening that morning, and my clerk said, "Decembers are offered at 230, offered at 220, offered at 210, trading at 200 even." I yelled, "Cover!" I made a quarter of a million dollars on twelve contracts! It was one of the most memorable trades of my life. Download 5.03 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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