Who shot the grain market?

摘要

In January 1980 I was 26 years old and awaiting the birth of my first child in April. I was a broker-trader in the soybean oil pit at the Chicago Board of Trade and I was also trading corn for my own account. I was short corn on a particular Friday. I thought that the corn market was acting very heavy so I doubled up and sold more corn taking it into the weekend.