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One of the bull markets in soybeans that occurred in the late 1970s comes to
mind as the most archetypal example I can think of. During that time period,
there was a severe lack of soybeans. The weekly government reports that
indicated strong export commitments and sales helped push the market
higher, which was one of the things that helped push the market higher.
When I was in the middle of managing a sizeable long position in soybeans, a
representative from Commodities Corporation gave me an update on the
most recent export numbers.
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He then proceeded to say, "I have good news and I have bad news." I
responded with, "All right, so what's the good news?" "The excellent piece of
news is that the total number of export commitments was fantastic. The
unfortunate news is that you do not have a limit position, which refers to the
largest size of speculative position that is allowed. They anticipated that the
market would continue to be limit-up for the following three days.
In point of fact, the fact that I wasn't offered a more prominent role eventually
caused me some sadness. The following morning, I got up and put in an order
to buy a few more contracts right when the market opened, just in case I
struck it rich and the market traded before the limit-up was locked in. I took a
back seat to enjoy the show. The market opened with a limit-up configuration
as anticipated. Not long after the doors first opened.
I observed that a large number of ticks were being recorded, which led me to
believe that the market was trading at the limit-up. Then, prices began to
retreat from their limit-up state just as my broker called to report that I had
been filled. The market began to trade in a downward direction. "Soybeans
were supposed to be limit-up for three days, and they can't even hold limit-up
on the first morning," I told myself. I immediately dialed the number of my
broker and yelled at him in a frantic tone to sell, sell, and sell some more!
They give the market a more individual feel. One of the most common errors
people make is to view the market as a personal adversary. The market, of
course, is completely devoid of any sense of personhood; it does not give a
damn about whether or not you make money. When a trader engages in the
destructive way of thinking known as "I wish" or "I hope," he is doing so
because these expressions divert attention away from the process of
diagnostic analysis.
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During my conversation with Kovner, the immense complexity and breadth
of his analysis left quite an impression on me. Even after all this time, I haven't
been able to figure out how he finds the time to follow and analyze in such
depth the economies of such a wide variety of countries, let alone combine
the results of all of these separate analyses into a single coherent picture. It is
abundantly clear that the typical trader will have a difficult time translating
Kovner's one-of-a-kind synthesis of worldwide fundamental and technical
analysis.
However, there are key components in Kovner's trading approach that have
direct relevance to the trader who engages in more mundane activities.
Kovner believes that effective risk management is the most important factor
in profitable trading; he always chooses an exit point before he enters a trade.
In addition to this, he stresses the importance of assessing risk on the basis of
the portfolio as a whole as opposed to viewing the risk of each trade
separately.
When one holds positions that are highly correlated to one another, this is of
the utmost importance because the trader's overall portfolio risk is likely to be
significantly higher than what the trader is aware of. Jones has been
tremendously successful in every significant endeavor he has attempted. He
entered the industry as a broker and, in just his second year, had already
raked in more than one million dollars in commissions. Jones became a floor
trader at the New York Cotton Exchange in the role of an independent in the
autumn of 1980. Market Wizards PDF Book
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Again, he was tremendously successful, and over the course of the next few
years, he made millions of dollars. His really impressive achievement was not
the magnitude of his winnings, but rather the consistency of his performance:
During his three and a half years as a floor trader, he saw only one month in
which he lost money. During that time, he was able to turn a profit in every
single month.
Jones left his successful career once more in 1984 to pursue a new line of
work in the field of money management. Part of his decision was motivated
by boredom, and another part was motivated by his fear of eventually losing
his voice, which is an occupational hazard for pit traders. In September of
1984, he established the Tudor Futures Fund with $1.5 million in assets under
management at the time.
At the end of October 1988, every $1,000 that had been invested in this fund
was worth $17,482, and the total amount of money that he managed had
increased to $330 million. Because Jones stopped accepting new investment
funds in October 1987 and has also made cash distributions since that time,
the amount of money that is currently under management is not as high as it
otherwise would have been. Market Wizards PDF Book
If one believes in cycles, as Jones does, it would appear that it is time for him
to make another transition in his professional life. It is difficult to fathom what
he could possibly do for an encore performance. What was his strategy?
Bielfeldt does not believe in diversification. His approach to trading is based
on the principle that one should specialize in a single domain.
Throughout the majority of his career as a trader, the soybean complex and,
to a lesser extent, the grain markets that were associated with it served as the
primary focus of his attention. Bielfeldt's limited resources forced him to
engage in trading only on a part-time basis, despite the fact that he had
always harbored the ambition of turning trading into his full-time occupation.
During those formative years of his career, he was responsible for running a
modest brokerage office.
As a trader who did not have access to any independent funds, he struggled
to find a solution to the issue of how he could build up a sufficient capital
base to become a professional trader. The strong desire that Bielfeldt had to
make this leap in his capital base prompted him to take a significant risk,
which one could even call imprudent. By the time 1965 rolled around, Bielfeldt
had painstakingly increased his initial stake of $1,000 to $10,000. Market
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Bielfeldt had a strong belief that prices would go higher in the near future
based on his fundamental analysis of the soybean market, as well as the
opinion that was shared by Thomas Hieronymus, who had been his
agricultural economics professor in the past. Given the size of his account,
which was only $10,000, he bought twenty soybean contracts, which was an
extremely high-leverage position. His bet was all or nothing.
A price drop of only ten cents would have been enough to wipe out his entire
account, whereas a much smaller price drop would have been sufficient to
trigger a margin call that would have required him to liquidate his position
immediately. In the beginning, prices did go down, and Bielfeldt came
perilously close to receiving that potentially devastating margin call. However,
he maintained his position, and the market eventually moved in an upward
direction.
Because of that one trade, he was able to more than double the amount of
equity he had in his account by the time he closed the position. Because of
that trade, Bielfeldt was able to take the first step toward achieving his
long-term goal of becoming a trader full-time. I don't judge success. I
celebrate it. Finding and pursuing one's true calling, regardless of the
potential for material gain, is the key to success in my opinion. Download the
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Don't let the lighthearted tone of Seykota's comments fool you; beneath the
surface, his terse responses contain a wealth of profound insight. The
statement that stuck with me the most was, "Everyone gets what they want
out of the market." (Everyone gets what they want out of the market.) When
Seykota made this remark for the first time, I thought he was just trying to be
funny. But I understood very quickly that he was being extremely serious.
My initial reaction upon hearing this premise was one of disbelief. It suggests
that all people who lose on purpose do so on purpose and that all winners
who fall short of their goals (including myself) are satisfying some inner need
for a constrained threshold of success. This is a difficult proposition for me to
accept. despite the fact that my unbendingly rational mind would normally
reject the idea.
The idea that everyone gets what they want out of the market is a very
provocative one, but due to my respect for Seykota and his knowledge of
both markets and people, I am forced to consider the possibility that he is
correct in making that statement. Absolutely. People have the misconception
that being a contrarian automatically results in winning. After all, the
definition of a contrarian is simply someone who goes against what the
majority believes. Download Market Wizards PDF Book.
It is almost a cliche that the majority opinion is always incorrect;
consequently, the individual who goes against the majority opinion must
always be correct. But unfortunately, life doesn't work like that. There were a
lot of people who went against the grain and bought bonds when interest
rates reached 8% for the first time, then 9%, and then 10%. People who bought
bonds at what were then record-setting yields ended up losing a significant
amount of money in the process.
Being a contrarian in theory is very different from addressing the topic in
terms of its application in the real world. This is a very important distinction.
To be successful as a contrarian trader, you need to have the right timing, and
you have to make sure that the size of the position you take is appropriate. If
you do it too little, it won't have any significance; if you do it too much, you run
the risk of failing completely if your timing is off just a little bit.
The process calls for bravery and dedication, in addition to an awareness of
one's own psyche, in order to be successful. Before Schwartz was able to find
his stride as a remarkably successful professional trader, he struggled in the
market for ten years and lost money consistently. According to him, he spent
his younger years working as a well-paid securities analyst who, as a result of
losses in the market, was consistently unable to pay his bills. Download
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After some time, he modified his approach to trading, and as a result, he went
from being a trader who routinely lost money to one who was able to turn a
profit with astonishing regularity. Schwartz has not only made enormous
annual percentage gains in every year since he began trading full-time in
1979, but he has also done so without ever suffering losses of more than 3
percent of his equity from one month's end to the next. This is a remarkable
achievement.
Schwartz is a self-employed trader who operates out of his home office. He
takes great satisfaction in the fact that he does not employ anyone. No matter
how successful they are, people who engage in this kind of solitary trading
are almost never known to the general public. Schwartz, however, has
attained a degree of fame through repeated entries in the U.S. Trading
Championships, run by Norm Zadeh, a Stanford University professor.
It would be an understatement to say that his performance in these
competitions has been nothing short of astounding. In nine out of the ten
four-month trading championships that he participated in (typically with a
starting stake of $400,000), he ended up making more money than all of the
other competitors combined. His overall return in these nine competitions
was a nonannualized 210 percent on average. In the one competition that
lasted for another four months, he saw a result that was very close to being
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He only entered the competition once, but he won 781 percent of the prize
money after it was over. The participation of Schwartz in these competitions is
Schwartz's way of demonstrating to the world that he is the most skilled
trader currently active. In terms of the risk-to-reward ratio, it's possible that he
is. I'll give you two illustrations, but I could easily provide you with a dozen
more. To keep the retail price of sugar in the United States at 22 cents per
pound, the federal government of the United States spends $5 billion
annually to prop up the price of sugar on the domestic market.
When it can be purchased on the global market for a price of 8 cents per
pound. Five billion dollars! If the government were to tell every sugar grower,
"We'll give you $100,000 a year for the rest of your life, a condominium, and a
Porsche if you just get out of the sugar business," our situation would be
improved. Because of the reduction in the price of sugar, not only would we
be able to save billions of dollars annually but also the entire country would
be in a better financial position.
Do you have any idea how much money we lose each year due to a deficit in
our balance of trade? That's where the bulk of your savings should go. One
hundred fifty billion dollars in total value. Do you have any idea how much it
costs us every year to keep troops from the United States stationed in
Europe? One hundred fifty billion dollars in total value. 43 years ago, American
soldiers were dispatched to the region to serve as part of an occupation army.
When it was decided to send American troops to Europe, the majority of
people living in this country had not even been born yet. Market Wizards
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They are wasting their time there by doing nothing but lounging around,
drinking beer, gaining weight, and pursuing females. According to the
General Accounting Office, our country does not possess sufficient
ammunition to wage even a thirty-day war in Europe. Despite this,
maintaining those individuals there costs us $150 billion annually. If we
stopped spending that $150 billion each year on defense and brought those
troops back home, I would argue that Europe would be able to defend itself
on its own.
The real question is, do you have any idea where they would get their firearms
from? Due to the fact that they do not have a very developed defense
industry infrastructure, they would purchase their weapons from our
company. Mark Weinstein and I are friends with the same person who
introduced us. Even though he was very interested in the project, the fact that
he wished to remain anonymous caused him to be hesitant about telling his
story. When it was time to schedule the interview, he would give me a call
and say, "OK, I will do it."
After that, he would call the following day and say, "I've changed my mind. I
don't want any attention drawn to me." This pattern occurred multiple times,
and each decision was accompanied by extensive phone conversations
concerning the benefits and drawbacks of conducting the interview. At last,
when I was at my wit's end, I exclaimed to Mark in a state of exasperation, "We
could have done three interviews in the time that we have spent talking
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That was the last time we talked about the issue until approximately two
months later, when Weinstein, who was impressed by the quality of the
traders who had agreed to take part in this book, decided to conduct the
interview. Before I started taking vacations and traveling around Europe, I had
never really entertained the idea of acquiring material possessions.
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