Market Cycles and the Pendulum

Markets swing between euphoria and despair and spend almost no time at the fair-value midpoint. You cannot time the arc but you can locate yourself on it: when credit is loose and risk goes unpriced, hold less and demand more; when capital is scarce and sound assets trade at panic prices, do the opposite. Aggressiveness is calibrated to position in the cycle rather than to forecasts.

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