money waiting to make the money. That's all that happened as the Wall Street stepped into the shoes of long-term capital investors and they did in fact make the money about a year later. You could see that coming, but you didn't know when. So the first condition is you need very deep pockets and then you need to be able to keep playing the game. And that's what happened to the Hunt Brothers in 1980, the regulators, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the exchange is called a timeout. It said, game over. Well, if the game is over when you're down and you don't get to make the next bet, that's another way to lose. You can be right, but you have to be solvent. Right. So those are the problems with, it's called a martingale by the way. That's the name for doubling down, doubling down, doubling down. Eventually you will win subject to those conditions which we mentioned, which is it's not game over and you have enough money. But that's not even how markets work. In other words, if (20/98)
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