August 11, 2007

In the stupid/intelligent, coward/valiant chart where will history plot today’s investors?

Sir it is clear what Saskia Scholtes is driving at in “Fear rather that fundamentals is driving trading” August 11, but as she readily admits that it can become self-fulfilling, we should never forget that fear can easily morph into a fundamental. You can fear finding a bear in the woods but if it appears you’d better treat it as a real fundamental or you pay for it. Now how you handle that fundamental and avoid panicking well that is a totally different matter which brings us to a graph where on the axis we plot from stupid to intelligent and on the y axis from coward to valiant, and then sit back and wait for history to plot us…on a minute by minute basis.