So long as predictions remain popular, and are so numerous as they are today – and so long as they receive notoriety through repetition in the press and on the radio – contrary opinions will increase in importance as thinking aids. “
July 17, 2018
The active manager cannot control his own destiny in times of high market correlation, but when correlation is a normal 26% - or lower - he can “hammer” the market. Correlation is the degree that different securities move together in tandem. The norm of 26% goes back close to a hundred years. Sudden increases in correlation are always...