A propósito do que aconteceu a 19 de Outubro de 1987 ("Black Monday")...
"I thought about it, but said to myself, 'Now is not the time to worry about making money; it is the time to worry about keeping what you have made'. Whenever there is a really rough period, I try to play defense, defense, defense.
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The day of the crash, I got out of most of my positions and protected my family. Then at 1:30 pm, with the Dow down 275 points, I went to my safe deposit box and took my gold out. Half an hour later, I went to another bank and started writing checks to get my cash out. I started buying Treasury bills and preparing for the worst.
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The stories I heard, subsequently, from people on the operations side of the business would have stopped the hearts of the public if they had known what was going on. The banks weren't meeting any of the calls at the brokerage firms. On Tuesday morning, we were within hours of the whole thing totally collapsing"
Marty Schwartz em "Interviews with Top Traders", de Jack D. Schwager, Harper Business, edição de 1990.
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