We had lots of speculative accounts and I was long about 400 contracts of July cotton. The market had been trading
in a range between 82 and 86 cents, and I was buying it every time it came down to the low end of that range.
One day, the market broke to new lows, took out the stops, and immediately rebounded about 30 or 40
points. I thought the reason the market had been acting so poorly was because of the price vulnerability implied by
the proximity of those well-known stops. Now that the stops had been touched off, I thought the market was ready to
rally.
I was standing outside the ring at the time. In an act of bravado, I told my floor broker to bid 82.90 for 100
July, which at the time was a very big order. He bid 90 for 100, and I remember the Refco broker came running
across the pit screaming, "Sold!" Refco owned most of the certificated stock at that time [the type of cotton available
for delivery against the contract]. In an instant I realized that they intended to deliver against the July contract,
which then was trading at about a 4-cent premium to the October contract. It also dawned on me that the whole
congestion pattern that had formed between 82 and 86 cents was going to be a market measurement for the next
move down [the break from 82 cents was going to equal the width of the prior 4-cent trading range].
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