Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hasbeen101 who wrote (4793)	3/11/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

>BTW, while beta doesn't seem to work at predicting long-run returns, Burton Malkiel (author of "A Random Walk down Wall Street") published a good paper in the Journal of Portfolio Management showing that beta was a really good predictor of how far stocks would tank in the 87 crash. Anyone who thinks the US market is going to tank (I don't) could be guided by this evidence in forming their short portfolio.< Damien, excellent book I guess you may have seen my endorsment of it here at SI. What do you mean by tanking? A 30% drop? Pancho