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A Problem, from Victor Niederhoffer

A problem with waiting and caning is that it can occur once every seven years, and if you try to catch the falling knife, you can elicit a 20% drop in a week like in Sep 2008. The falling knife occurs often in telescoped time with individual stocks. But no evidence that buying these worst performers leads to superior return is possible without a precise contemporaneous as was, non- retrospective file.