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.
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