his trading bias on the stock market from bearish to bullish.
Two weeks ago you were very bearish. What made you change your mind?
You mean besides the
Wall Street Journal
article that publicized to the world that I was short 2,000 S&P
contracts? The market didn't go down. The first thing I do is put my ear to the railroad tracks. I always believe that
prices move first and fundamentals come second.
Do you mean that if you were right, prices should have gone down and the didn't?
and; they didn't?
One of the things that Tullis taught me was the importance of time. When I trade, I don't just use a price
stop, I also use a time stop. If I think a market should break, and it doesn't, I will often get out even if I am not
losing any money. According to the 1929 analog model, the market should have gone down — it didn't. This was the
first time during the past three years that we had a serious divergence. I think the strength of the economy is going
to delay the stock market break.
I believe one reason why we are diverging from the 1 929 model is because of the much easier availability of
credit today. Volvo is giving out 120-month car loans. Think about that! Who owns a car for ten years? Twenty years
ago, the average length of a car loan was twenty-four months; today it is fifty-five months. I think the final bottom
line will be the same, but the ease of credit will delay the process relative to the 1920s,
when we had a cash
economy.
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