ing price.
What was lumber doing at this time?
It did nothing. It just watched plywood go from $110 to $200. Since they were both wood products, and
lumber was also in short supply, I reasoned that lumber could go way up—and it should have. However, after I
bought lumber at around $130, the government finally woke up to what had happened in plywood, and they were
determined not to let the same thing happen in lumber.
The day after I went long, some government official came out with an announcement that they were going to
crack down on speculators in lumber who were trying to ran up the market like they had ply wood. The lumber
market crashed just on that statement. I was down to the point where I was close to being wiped out again. There
was a two-week period during which they kept issuing these statements. The market stabilized at a level just above
where I would have been wiped out. I had just enough money left to hang on to my position.
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