What do you mean you weren't smart enough to know in which direction the trade pact
announcement would move the market? Since U.S./Canadian trade is so much a larger component of
Canadian trade than it is of U.S. trade, wouldn't it hive been logical to assume that the trade pact would
be bullish for the Canadian dollar?
It didn't have to happen that way. I could just as easily have aigued that the trade pact was negative for the
Canadian dollar because tie elimination of the trade barriers would allow imports from the Ш. to submerge Canadian
interests. There are still some analysts who tdhere to that argument. My point is that there are well-informed tralers
who know much more than I do. I simply put things together. Tfey knew which way to go, and they voted in the
marketplace by buying Canadian dollars.
Is the generalization of that example that when an importart fundamental development occurs,
the initial direction of the marlet move is often a good tip-off of the longer-term trend?
Exactly. The market usually leads because there are people Wio know more than you do. For example, the
Soviet Union is a very gocd trader.
Good trader in which markets?
In currencies, and grains to some degree.
How does one know what the Soviets are doing?
Because the Soviets act through commercial banks and dealers, and you hear about it.
It seems rather contradictory to me that a country that is so poor in running its own economy
should be a good trader.
Yes, but if you ask people in the business, you will find out that they are.
Why, or how?
It is a joke, but perhaps they do read some of our mail. The Soviets (and other governments) occasionally
have advance information. Why shouldn't they? They have the best developed intelligence service in the world. It is a
well known fact in the intelligence community that the Soviets (and others) are capable of eavesdropping on
commercial communication. That is why the large commodity trading firms sometimes use scramblers when they are
making very sensitive calls.
My point is that there are thousands of difficult-to-understand mechanisms that lead the market, which come
into play before the news reaches some poor trader sitting at his desk. But the one thing that does hit the market is a
huge sale or purchase.
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